Rocket

Dramatically improve the loading speed of your pages, and reduce server load using this simple but effective caching extension.

Rocket automatically works out which channel entries each page uses, and when enabled, creates and uses a static html copy of that template instead of rendering a fresh copy each time.

Whenever a channel entry is updated, Rocket checks and updates any cached URLs affected.

You can specify certain URLs to ignore, for example dynamic members only content.

In testing Rocket has achieved TTFB (time to first byte) of 17ms. (Digital Ocean/Ubuntu/NGINX VPS)

Why is this important?

Figures from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/about/news/press/2017-press/akamai-releases-spring-2017-state-of-online-retail-performance-report.jsp)

• Half of consumers browse for products and services on their smartphones, while only one in five complete purchases using those phones
• A 100-millisecond delay in website load time can hurt conversion rates by 7 percent
• A two-second delay in web page load time increase bounce rates by 103 percent
• 53 percent of mobile site visitors will leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load

The price is for a 1 year license, this small recurring fee ensures on-going development and support of new EE versions.