Verify if LiteSpeed Cache is working

Check whether LiteSpeed Cache is active by inspecting the response headers returned by your server.

The quickest way to confirm that LiteSpeed Cache is working is to inspect the HTTP response headers your server returns when a page is loaded. Your browser's developer tools make this straightforward.

Open the developer tools in Chrome

Open Chrome and navigate to a page on your website.
Press Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + Option + I (Mac) to open the developer tools, or right-click anywhere on the page and choose Inspect.

Check the response headers

In the developer tools panel, click the Network tab.
Reload the page by pressing F5 (or Cmd + R on Mac).
In the list of requests that appears, click the entry that matches your domain name.
Select the Headers sub-tab and scroll down to the Response Headers section.

Interpreting the result

Look for the x-litespeed-cache header. Its value tells you the cache status:

Header value	Meaning
`x-litespeed-cache: hit`	The page was served from the LiteSpeed Cache.
`x-litespeed-cache: miss`	The page was not in cache and was generated fresh.

A miss on the very first load after clearing cache is normal. Reload the page once more - if caching is working correctly, the header should change to hit.

If you continue to see miss on repeated loads, check that the LiteSpeed Cache plugin (for WordPress) or your cache configuration is enabled and that the page is not excluded from caching by a rule.

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