Whenever the cache is cleared (or "flushed" in Drupal parlance), whether from new content creation of a volundary flush, the burden of caching is moved to the users: files are not actively rebuilt and put in the cache until a visitor chances upon the page to be rebuilt. This causes two problems:
1) it gives your users an impression of sluggishness about your site, and sluggish sites are bad sites;
2) Google now considers your page load speeds as part of its ranking algorithms; everything else being equal, faster pages rank higher -- precaching gives your site the edge, especially when, in the worst possible case, Googlebot is the user burdened with a first visit on a page.
Smart Flush lets you configure URLs that must be rebuilt after any type of cache clearing, or can be set to recache all pages that account for a certain percentage of traffic (it is often said that 20% of your pages account for 80% of your traffic for example, so Smart Flush can be configured to regenerate those 20% of all of your pages, of you can go all-out and request that all of your pages be recached).
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- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Module categories: Administration, Performance and Scalability
- Last modified: November 6, 2010
