Wordpress LScache Plugin: POST guest.vary.php taking too much time to load
Last Updated on: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:02 After installing Litespeed Cache plugin my website speed has really improved but I just wanted to ask, why after using this plugin theres this POST guest.vary.php file taking too much time to load as compare to other links in GTMETRIX > you can check here > GTMETRIX test result for reviewskia.com Let me know how can I improve this, if it is possible! Thank you. The page I need help with: https://www.reviewskia.com/ guest.vary.php is an uncached file and if a URL is not cached it takes much longer to request it. You could extremly speedup your page if would cleanup not necassary static sources. Nobody in this universe needs 25 fonts if they are all requested from Google host. The same with dozen of requests to social media hosts. These requests you should care about much more. They all brake loading time extremely. Thank you @CacheCrawler for your reply & suggestions on other resources that are taking load times. I will definitely look into it. But about this > POST guest.vary.php file, how can I make it cache-hit in Litespeed? Am I missing something in Litespeed settings? But about this > POST guest.vary.php file, how can I make it cache-hit in Litespeed? This request is a POST request and cant be cached. Same if you send email with contact form, that is also POST and cant be cached. Otherwise it cant work anymore. If a URL is cached it is plain text and plain text has no PHP, understand? You can do the same like cache does. Store a website with browser functions on your local machine. The stored file is the output what you see in browser window, but without PHP, only text/html. Thats why a cache is so fast. Okay, got it. Thanks for the explanation. I do have one last problem with Litespeed plugin, is that on this website reviewskia.com > GTMETRIX result when I had turned on favicon.ico feature to cache favicon icon it is working properly theres no issue in GTMETRIX results & even favicon icon is loading properly. BUT, on another website Viewsnews.in when I had turned on favicon.ico feature in Cache settings (If you remember last week, I had asked for the solution because on gtmetrix results it was showing 404 error for which you guys told me to add favicon.ico file to the root directory. Which I did, but the problem is favicon icon is not showing on frontend but on backend its showing & on the > GTMETRIX result you can see it also taking too much time to load favicon.ico I am actually confused on this that, why on this website I had to manually add favicon.ico? why its not caching the actual favicon icon? as the icon I had added on viewsnews.in is svg file on converting it into .ico file its becoming 209kb file. So, what should I do on this caseOkay, first of all you have to know is, that favicon.ico is a static source. Static sources are always cached by browser, but not with any cache plugin. Caching static sources means that browser will do this job, but he needs information about how long he should cache this static sources. Normally a favicon.ico is stored as file on host, but sometimes this source is generated by application and this is PHP. If a source is PHP it is cached by cache plugin, although it is a static source. Strange, I know, but it is as it is. The only thing you have to do is to store a favicon.ico in root path of your host and to enable settings in WP for favicon cache. If your favicon has such huge file size, use other service for transform svg to .ico. Information about the size of a .svg file is stored in this file. You can check it if you open this file in Notepad or similiar editor (Not Word!). You see only a lot of text, but you can change this text. Search for width= and height= just at the beginning of this file. Values for witdh and height should be 32 . Change it if necessary and save file. Then use any service for image transforming and let this file be transformed from .svg to .ico. Did exactly as you said, it worked but the loading time on GTMETRIX still shows same, I mean for 1.70kb file its taking 568ms > latest gtmetrix result is it because not getting cached? Hey buddy, why do you claim such an excellent test result?! I dont know what is wrong with GTMetrix, but it seems it doesnt support .svg und uses .ico instead. You dont care about this because every browser supports .svg and ignores favicon.ico. The only thing you should to is to increase TTL cache for static sources from 2592000 to 31536000. Anything else is perfect! Hahaha? sorry got carried away with the speed settings for both the websites. Looks excellent results for now, hope so when traffic increases it will handle it efficiently. CheersHave a great day ahead. Thank you for the help. there was an issue for favicon.ico was not cached as static resources , but it should be cached now , and you should see that favicon loading time drops considerably Yes @CacheCrawler Thank you, everything is working correctly now.
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