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A full page cache is a powerful performance optimization for web-applications with numerous visitors. Instead of performing all the PHP and database work to render the same page over and over again, you cache the resulting HTML once and serve that time and again for a period. But there is room for even more improvement, especially in e-commerce applications that use full page caching.

In our second Release in 2025, we’re introducing additional performance insights to help you identify and resolve even more Bottlenecks faster and more effectively. Detailed information is now integrated in our Weekly Report, namely the number and types of the observations discovered in your application. We’re eager to make it easier than ever to stay on top of optimizations.

Every year, like clockwork, a new version of PHP is released at the end of November. Naturally, you want to know, how much performance gain is in this new release across common frameworks and applications? Our tests show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application. Upgrading to the latest PHP version is not a magic pill to improve performance.