Hello, I've been developing a new site and programming amazon api. I have a wordpress (blog) like site which sends a request to amazon for URL of product images for each picture. My question is, do I need to cache these responses so that I don't go over the request/time limit? Thanks! I ask because I tried wp-super cache which broke my site.. so if I don't have to I will avoid it.
It's not required, but it would be a good thing to add in for the future. Caching will ultimately improve your visitor's experience on your site, and improve on system performance. thnx, PuReWebDev
There are some rules about what you can and can't cache: (from the licence agreement): So, you are not supposed to cache images, and not supposed to cache image URLs for more than 24 hours, though I bet people do, especially when making static pages. I would say caching is not necessary unless you have fairly high traffic - depends on your site obviously, but if most products are not getting more than one view in the space of 24 hours then obviously there is not much point caching. Course, if you have a few products getting lots of traffic then it makes sense...