Hi Tibbie,
The IPs 198.251.81.203 and 198.251.83.106 apparently belong to FranTech Solutions, which may be hosting the WP Fastest Cache Preload Bot, a component of the WP Fastest Cache plugin’s preload system.
My plugin operates differently: it is designed to protect your site by detecting and blocking malicious bots and hacker attempts, explaining the reasons for any blocks, and logging visits and user agents. It does not interact with or trigger WP Fastest Cache in any way.
Its philosophy is to not display the page content until the visitor is verified as human, which helps to prevent, among other things, content theft.
The cache plugin you mentioned seems to follow the opposite approach: it attempts to display content as quickly as possible to all visitors. With the recent explosion of AI and automated bots, it has become common for content to be copied automatically. This can have a strong impact on your human traffic, potentially reducing your legitimate visits significantly.
We believe that if you freely allow bots to collect your content, your server will become overloaded, and the final result will be the inverse of what you expect. In other words, pages will take much longer to load, even with caching enabled. This is our point of view, but we respect that of others.
I suggest reflecting on this situation and deciding which approach aligns better with your goals and priorities for your website. If you have any doubts, I recommend reaching out directly to the WP Fastest Cache support team to request more information regarding their preload process.
If you want your pages to load faster, run our free site-checkup plugin and follow the instructions provided.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-checkup/advanced/
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Bill
Returning to the topic of optimization, our freesite-checkup plugin verifies, among other things, whether your server has the PHP extensions Opcache and Imagick installed. These extensions are critical and can significantly accelerate page loading times.
Opcache: It speeds up PHP by storing pre-compiled script bytecode in the server’s memory, eliminating the need to compile scripts on every request.
Imagick: It enables fast, advanced server-side image processing and manipulation, optimizing how images are resized and served.
These two are just examples; the plugin checks numerous other critical optimization points.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-checkup/
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Bill
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tibbie
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Much appreciated! Very through…S
