Joomla websites can be speeded up by caching and there is a component developed in 2007 that helps caching the joomla website. The visitors to the website are benefited with increased loading time due to this component for caching. The component has received good reviews on IrcMaxell and Joomla extension site as well as on the Review of Page Component. The component can be downloaded from the site http://www.ircmaxell.com/. The webpage is cached quite efficiently by the component to drastically reduce the loading time. Sometimes such reduction may be over 90%. The component works in addition to the default joomla cache.

Component Drawback

The component can be installed in a short time and installation process is easy. However for getting into the cache, initial one time loading of the page is necessary that can run for a few seconds. This is a drawback of the component. After that depending on the volume of new content created for the joomla website, the active time period of the cache is determined. The standard time for the cache to remain active is usually 10 minutes. Another drawback of the component is that it cannot work for members logged in but only for the visitors to the website. This drawback is really quite difficult to fix as caching for individuals itself is quite difficult. Per session caching could have solved the problem but then it is hardly possible to do. However since the component speeds up the joomla website, the benefit goes to those visitors called the search engine spiders. Joomlaboard is another specific component that can be helped out by some plugins. Another option is not to make the page cache handle the problem component.

Footer

Another feature of the component is its leaving behind on the joomla website a footer “powered by Page_Cache by Ircmaxell”. This footer can be removed by diving into the code. The developer Ircmaxell can also be paid some specified donation to remove this footer. In spite of the drawbacks, the component is worth giving a try as it certainly provides speed to the joomla website by reducing the loading time.