The plugin is very misleading. The demo video shows a simplified case, but in reality, Cloudflare just serves a cached HTML copy from memory. If you run WooCommerce, things get more complicated: logged-in users or anyone with items in their cart are served the original uncached version, which means you’re back to a slow site. So first of all, you still need to optimize your site speed anyway—unless you don’t care about logged-in customers or those shopping with a cart.
Secondly, the support is terrible, both on the free and Pro versions.
Third, one reviewer gave it 1 star, and someone replied that they provide it for free, so you should be happy for it. But let’s be honest, nothing is free. It’s simply a marketing tactic to push you toward the paid Pro version. And just coz its free, it was team idea. “huh you gave me poisoned food, but its for free so thank you anyway” vibes.
Fourth, this plugin is essentially just a wrapper on APO with an extra layer of caching. In practice, you’re stacking cache on cache—it’s like putting a band-aid on a band-aid.
Finally, APO itself already supports caching for UTM-tagged pages, but this plugin locks that behind the Pro version. In other words, they stripped features out of APO just to charge you for them. Cookies prefixes that always bypass cache are literally copy of APO, but “Querystrings Bypassed” were wrapped into pro version.
Also, documentation is so poor it amazes me this is wordpress plugin, good luck finding out how to flush cache (I was flushing cloudflare cache with API, but this plugin adds disk cache additionally)..
Disk cache from this plugin itself is totally waste of time
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