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Beware if you're using this BEHIND a separate caching layer such as Varnish. That's not well-supported (and helped contribute to an outage for us. we used auto-scaling groups and that shot us in the foot when first trying out pagespeed).

In itself this module is pretty cool, but you're actually better off simply internalizing the various practices within your own code & infrastructure, with a CDN in front.

None of this is to knock the Pagespeed plugin. It IS really cool, and in an organization with many silos (like Google) it has many benefits.



Actually, it is supported and this is how I've been using it. It's documented here [0].

[0]: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/downstr...


"Note: this feature is currently experimental" and that's a true statement.


The whole thing is a beta. I've been using Downstream Caching in production for years.




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