What is HTML caching?

The idea is to cache not just images and scripts, but also the HTML content. After all, if the HTML takes too long to load, it will delay every other request. Every other page resource will load after the HTML content is downloaded and parsed. The page took 16.84 seconds to load, which is slow.

How do I prevent HTML from caching?

Disable browser caching with meta HTML tags

Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Expires: 0.

How can caching be prevented?

When you’re in Google Chrome, click on View, then select Developer, then Developer Tools. Alternatively, you can right click on a page in Chrome, then click Inspect. Click on the Network tab, then check the box to Disable cache. You can then close out of Developer Tools.

What does enable caching mean?

Let’s say you own a blog with caching enabled. Since caching is turned on, the server stores this HTML file — usually within its ‘random access memory’ (or RAM), which is extremely fast. The next time you, or anyone else, views the homepage, the server doesn’t need to do the processing and conversion to HTML.

Is it good to cache HTML?

It reduces the time it takes for the user to view the images or Javascript or CSS files. This is because the user now accesses the file from his system instead of getting downloaded over the network. At the same time, caching also reduces the number of requests and data transfer from your servers.

What are caching techniques?

Caching is a mechanism to improve the performance of any type of application. Technically, caching is the process of storing and accessing data from a cache. But wait, what is a cache? A cache is a software or hardware component aimed at storing data so that future requests for the same data can be served faster.

Should I cache HTML?

Don’t cache HTML on the browser so that you can quickly push updates to the client-side. But the CDN should allow for such dynamic content caching. Different CDNs have a different way of caching the content at their level without polluting browser cache or other intermediaries.

Does Chrome cache HTML?

The browser will retrieve the HTML page from the web server but consult its cache for the static assets (JavaScript, CSS, images). Chrome will pull files from either memory cache or disk cache.

Why do we need to clear cache?

The more information that is saved in the cache, the slower your computer will be browsing the web. Deleting the cache data helps to troubleshoot, helps to increase the loading time of web pages and increases the performance of your computer. When you delete the stored cache data, the new version can be retrieved.

How do you fix caching problems?

Here are some ways you can try to fix your caching problem, in order of escalation:

Try holding down the Shift key while pressing the Refresh button.
Close your browser and re-open it (make sure you are NOT on the cached page) and delete your temporary Internet files (clear your cache).
Restart your computer.

How do I enable caching?

Caching is enabled by identifying a resource or type of resource, such as images or CSS files, and then specifying headers for the resource(s) with the desired caching options.

Does HTML get cached?

The browser will retrieve the HTML page from the web server but consult its cache for the static assets (JavaScript, CSS, images). We can see the difference cache makes when we refresh the Wikipedia page: Chrome will pull files from either memory cache or disk cache.