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title: "Caching and Accurate AI Activity Logs — citelayer®"
url: "https://citelayer.ai/docs/cache-compatibility/"
date: 2026-03-19
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# Caching and Accurate AI Activity Logs

A full-page cache or CDN can serve a response before WordPress runs. That matters for both current content and completeness of local crawler logs.

What the plugin can detect
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The analytics screen recognizes WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache and offers setup guidance. Detection does not prove that a cache exclusion is active or that an upstream CDN passes every request to WordPress.

Verify one URL
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1. Record a public page response and a Markdown response.
2. Inspect cache headers and the host/CDN configuration.
3. Make a controlled request that reaches WordPress and compare its appearance in local logs.
4. Compare ordinary cached responses and confirm current content without disabling caching globally.

Set exclusions deliberately
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Follow the guidance for your actual cache and provider. Excluding all bots from caching can increase origin load, and trusting a User-Agent alone is not identity verification. Prefer the smallest change that fixes the observed collection or format problem.

If traffic still looks wrong
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Check server/WAF logs where available, tracker scripts for referrals, response ownership and retention. A missing PHP log event may simply mean that the edge answered the request. [Crawler logs](/docs/crawler-logs/) and [referrals](/docs/ai-referral-tracking/) provide different evidence.

Next step
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Continue with [the quick start checklist](/docs/quick-start/), or [check the common questions](/docs/faq/). For a reproducible problem, send the plugin versions, affected URL, expected result and actual response through [Support](/support/). Do not include passwords, license keys or customer details.

Reviewed 6 October 2026 against citelayer® Free 1.13.5, WooCommerce add-on 1.2.19 and EDD add-on 1.2.1. Features depend on the active components and settings on your site.