WordPress includes a Site Health tool that checks your website’s configuration and reports potential issues. You can find it under Tools → Site Health in your WordPress admin area, or it may appear through plugins like Health Check & Troubleshooting.
Don’t worry if you see multiple warnings when running these checks on InfinityFree. Most warnings are completely normal and expected on free hosting. Your website works perfectly fine for visitors despite these alerts. The warnings appear because free hosting has intentional limitations that help us provide reliable service to millions of users at no cost.
What should I do about these warnings?
Most Site Health warnings on InfinityFree can be safely ignored. Here’s how to tell the difference:
Ignore warnings if: Your website loads normally for visitors, images upload and display correctly, your plugins work as expected, and visitors can interact with your site without problems.
Take action only if: Visitors report error messages, specific features on your site stop working, or you’re building something that requires advanced server features.
Warnings you can safely ignore
“The optional module, imagick, is not installed”
WordPress prefers to use the imagick extension for advanced image editing, but it’s not available on free hosting. This is intentional because imagick requires significant server resources and has security considerations that aren’t suitable for shared free hosting.
Your website will automatically use the GD extension instead, which handles all basic image needs like resizing photos for your media library. Unless you need very specific advanced image manipulation features, you won’t notice any difference.
“Your site could not complete a loopback request”
This warning appears because InfinityFree uses security systems to prevent automated abuse and keep servers stable for everyone. WordPress sometimes tries to connect back to itself to test functionality, but our security system blocks these automated connections to protect against malicious traffic.
This same security limitation also causes this related warning:
- “The REST API encountered an unexpected result”
These warnings don’t mean the features are broken. They just mean WordPress can’t test them automatically because it can’t connect back to itself. Your REST API works fine for actual visitors.
“Unable to detect the presence of page cache”
This warning also appears due to the same loopback limitation described above. WordPress can’t test whether you have caching enabled because it can’t connect back to itself to check.
If you have caching plugins installed, they’re working perfectly even though WordPress can’t detect them. If you want to add caching to speed up your website, plugins like W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache work great on InfinityFree.
Just choose plugins that use file-based caching. Free hosting doesn’t include server-level caching systems like LiteSpeed or Varnish, so avoid plugins that require those specific technologies.
Warning you should address
“Your website does not use HTTPS”
Unlike the other warnings, this one indicates something you should fix. HTTPS is important for security, user trust, and search engine rankings.
InfinityFree provides free SSL certificates, but you need to set them up manually. You can find step-by-step instructions in the forum: How to get free SSL/HTTPS on InfinityFree
When these warnings might actually matter
These limitations work fine for the vast majority of WordPress sites. The warnings only become actual problems if you’re building specialized applications that need advanced image processing features or automated testing workflows.
For typical websites, blogs, online stores, and business sites, free hosting provides everything you need and these warnings won’t affect your visitors’ experience.
Summary
Site Health warnings on InfinityFree are mostly informational and don’t affect your visitors’ experience. The key things to remember:
- Multiple warnings are normal and expected on free hosting
- Your website works fine for visitors despite these alerts
- Only worry about warnings if you notice actual problems on your site
- Set up HTTPS if you see that warning, but ignore the rest
- These limitations help us provide stable free hosting to everyone
