Use Caching With Your Content Management System

A Content Management System is a Database Driven Website which creates pages in real-time rather than storing them. The database holds the page content and several templates form the structure of these pages. These sites are powerful since they can construct new pages based on user input and show pages based on user preferences. When a user clicks a link the page forms as the database spits out the content into the sections of the page that will display them. This makes for a slower page load time than with a static site. The database must work each time there is a page request and this slows down depending on the number of users who are browsing the same page.

Caching is a tool that helps with this problem. Many CMS systems including Drupal, Joomla and WordPress allow for page caching. The Caching system stores a copy of the web pages recently accessed. For a certain amount of time new page calls will receive these saved copies. Click to continue »