A cache is a local copy of a file that exists elsewhere. Caching can take place in the browser, on a dedicated machine on a network, or at an ISP.
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New requests for /cache/ URLs
A few weeks ago requests following this type of pattern:
http://mysite/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40
http://mysite/otherfolder/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40
started to appear ...
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1answer
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Website Not Cached by Google Since 1 and Half Months [closed]
My website www.rushinformation.com is not being cached by Google since 1 April 2013 but pages are getting indexed. My robots.txt file is fine. So please tell me what could be the reason for this and ...
4
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1answer
66 views
How do Expires headers and cache manifest rules work together?
I find the W3C's official Offline Web Applications specification to be rather vague about how the cache manifest interacts with headers such as ETag, Expires, or Pragma on cached assets. I know that ...
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2answers
87 views
Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?
situation
I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie www.intendedname.tld . The ...
3
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1answer
101 views
“404. That’s an error.” when viewing from Google cache
My site is getting 404. That’s an error. message when I click on cached from Google search results.
This is the error message from Google:
That’s an error.
The requested URL ...
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1answer
25 views
Caches and Website Screen Shots
If I am creating a website to filter retail websites, like shipping or eco-friendly, etc. Could I use the screenshot of the homepage as the icon to link to the direct website? Ie. if my filters ...
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1answer
87 views
Why Google stopped caching my site?
Today I noticed that Google has stopped caching my site. I don't know why? cache:www.technostall.com (that's how I check cached pages in Chrome) gives a 404 page. Can anyone let me know why is this ...
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1answer
346 views
How to specify expiration of cacheable resources?
I'm trying to speed up a wordpress site -- this site: http://richardclunan.net
I'm following the observations here: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/richardclunan.net/9ps7Zc0j
The first item says: "The ...
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0answers
41 views
How to increase memory and cache size for application pool in IIS 7 efficiently [closed]
I search internet for increase memory and cach for application pool in IIS 7 but all topics are diffused and I do't know the effect of that settings together.
can some body describe How I can ...
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1answer
44 views
Why is my cache manifest failing?
I have created the following cache maniest file-
CACHE MANIFEST
CACHE:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js
...
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4answers
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How do I set expiration headers for CSS, JS, and Images?
I have recently analysed my website with pagespeed addon on firebug. It suggested me to set expiration on CSS, JS and image files.
I am wondering how do i do this?
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2answers
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Optimizing data downloaded via 'link' media queries and asynchronous loading
I have a website that tries to make sensible use of media queries and avoid 'expensive' CSS for users of mobile devices. My eventual goal is to make it 'mobile-first' but for now, since it is based on ...
0
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2answers
1k views
.htaccess and browser caching
I ran across these suggested htaccess edits. Is this a good practice? Is this something I should implement on my wordpress site?:
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType ...
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42answers
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Recovering a lost website with no backup?
Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com
http://www.codinghorror.com
(Yes, yes, I ...
1
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2answers
105 views
Google Cache CSS and HTML files are out-of-sync
I am monitoring the cached version of the main page of one of my sites. I have noticed something strange.
Obviously, the cached pages is displayed with the latest CSS file. Yet, the page content is ...
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1answer
191 views
PHPFox caching? [closed]
I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows:
nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content
are there other ways to cache content with phpfox?
I can't use memcache ...
3
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1answer
184 views
Visitors have old website cached in their browsers
My client's new website is example.com, the old website is example.co.uk. I've re-pointed the A Records to the new website (so as to leave the emails alone) and put in 301 redirects from old pages to ...
3
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1answer
350 views
How to do a cacheable redirection?
When users enter my website example.com, their "preferred" language is detected and they are redirected (using a 301 Moved Permanently redirection) to example.com/en/ (for English), example.com/it/ ...
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1answer
46 views
Curious about a cached old domain
I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say http://example.com/. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name http://another-domain.com/. I uploaded ...
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3answers
160 views
Is it worth it to change my entire user images file structure to take advantage of simple browser caching?
On one of my mobile sites, I simply store my user's profile images as '1.jpg' in their user folder, and incrementally go from there for any extra pics they upload. This means that whenever they change ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
Domain expired- possible to find content that was on websites?
I had a domain that I let expire, and was subsequently purchased by someone else. I have several links on my website that are now directed towards their new site. I was wondering if it is possible to ...
5
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2answers
179 views
My old webhost has gone out of business. How can I recover the text of my website?
I found my website in the Wayback Machine a few months ago.
My old webhost stopped paying for their servers back in August without any notice. I was going to do a backup the day it happened.
Is ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
Cache external static scripts?
In my never ending quest for a faster website, I thought perhaps I could cache some scripts. I'm using Yslow to rate my site, everything is pretty much A (which is great, our website on Pingdom loads ...
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1answer
587 views
Google Chrome audit: resources are explicitly non-cacheable?
If I run a Google Chrome audit on a site, it lists all CSS, PNG, JPG, JS files and even the main domain (i.e. www.example.com) under the heading:
Leverage browser caching
The following resources ...
4
votes
1answer
90 views
Discrepancy between Google cached meta description and description in search result
I have developed a 1 page website to deal with time zone world clocks. I have noticed that Google has the latest version of the page in its cache, so it has access to the latest meta description.
...
2
votes
3answers
154 views
How to make CloudFlare Cache all pages
CloudFlare seems to only cache my homepage, and I am wondering if there is a way to force it to cache all pages. Notice it when BlueHost went down today and only my homepage is cached by CloudFlare. ...
4
votes
3answers
108 views
How can I make a “backup” that can serve static pages if the main site goes down?
We've got one server running our company's website. Unfortunately, it sometimes experiences problems. Is there a way to set up another server to serve the static websites, in case the original server ...
3
votes
2answers
332 views
Find old web content via Google cache or similar
I have a bit of a problem. My client is running a Joomla 1.0 site and some content (text) was lost. There was no backup configured of the MySQL database. The content was lost approx. around the 16:th ...
0
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0answers
140 views
Is there a way to make Alexa's ia_archiver slow down its crawling of my website?
Alexa's ia_archiver bot is the main contributor to the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" web collection, and there are advantages to having my website included in that collection. There are other ...
1
vote
2answers
76 views
Cloudflare displaying cached CSS in-line?
I recently enabled CloudFlare on my domain, and when I make HTML statements like this:
<link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
The CSS gets displayed in-line, like this:
...
6
votes
2answers
1k views
Chrome causing 404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”?
Since the last weeks we see many 404's on our sites caused by Chrome adding /cache/[hex-string]/ to the current page URL.
The hex strings we have seen are:
e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728
...
0
votes
0answers
9 views
Non-dynamic CMS [duplicate]
Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the ...
2
votes
1answer
231 views
Appcache and jquery mobile on a CMS powered site?
Has anyone used the cache manifest to make a CMS site work offline? I've made a demo with static html files which seems to work fine, so I'm assuming it wouldn't be too hard to achieve the same thing ...
1
vote
1answer
235 views
Joomla sometimes messes up URLs, probably cache involved
Every once in while my Joomla site messes up link's URLs. For example, something like this:
http://www.sism.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123
Become ...
1
vote
2answers
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Cache website via CDN for visitors, not for users
I'm not sure what this is called. For example, if you're logged out of Reddit, you see a cached, static version of the site from the CDN. When you're logged in, you don't hit the CDN and instead ...
3
votes
4answers
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how should cache control be set in the requests
i know that cache control headers can be set on the pages coming out from the web-servers (that is responses). Does anyone know how cache control header should be set on the requests? Should it be ...
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votes
4answers
299 views
Any ideas why Google not caching my site?
The site is www.books-for-children.com, developed in Wordpress CMS. It was launched about two months ago and still has not been cached by Google, which seems highly unusual. Any ideas where I might ...
4
votes
2answers
312 views
Mediawiki much slower in Firefox
I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after ...
4
votes
1answer
975 views
HTTP Header Cache Time: s-maxage and max-age
I am setting up a CDN for my website, I found the following sample for adding to the 'httpd.conf' file, this is used to adjust the cache-time for client and CDN:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType ...
3
votes
1answer
151 views
Difficulty enabling caching on inherited site
I have been asked to work on a corporate website a previous employee had created.
The site is on shared GoDaddy hosting. One of the first things I noticed (after the 140KB JPEG on the front page, ...
1
vote
5answers
155 views
Website caching site
Google and archive.org both cache/archive sites, however neither of them are fast enough and they don't cache everything.
Is there some site where you can input a url and it will go grab it and store ...
0
votes
1answer
498 views
What response headers encourage 304-Not Modified upon reloads?
When looking at the network waterfall in Firebug/Chrome/IE9, I keep seeing "200-OK" instead of "304-Not Modified" for many cache-able files (images, js, css) on this page, for example.
I believe it ...
1
vote
1answer
118 views
Potential issues with multiple home pages
I have a site where I want to have two different home pages: a general description page for anonymous users, and a dashboard page for logged-in users.
I am debating between two implementations:
...
1
vote
1answer
90 views
Setting Cache-Control and Expires headers for the end client only
I am trying to add explicit caching to 301 redirects. However, I am worried that a permanent redirect for one user might not be permanent for another user. So I'd like to use Cache-Control: no-cache ...
1
vote
2answers
619 views
How to get browsers to only download CSS/Javascript when it changes?
I had an epiphany earlier when reading codinghorror. On a content website (blog/forum/website) the basic things rarely change if at all. So I was wondering if there was a way to cache them and only ...
0
votes
2answers
84 views
Make browsers not to make HTTP requests for cached items
I know that http caching and sending 304 response is to save some bandwidth and of course some load time.
However in my web site there are about 40 css stylesheet files and 20 javascript files (don't ...
1
vote
1answer
132 views
IIS and content caching
I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old ...
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vote
2answers
447 views
Cache a resource across HTTP and HTTPS
Is there a way to specify that a resource should be cached when accessed over both HTTP and HTTPS? We have lots of static content that is initially served over HTTP and then re-served over SSL when ...
6
votes
2answers
831 views
Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?
How to force the user's web browser to reload CSS files with Apache Server?
I updated my website's CSS file but some users are still seeing problems that would be resolved if their browsers fetched ...
1
vote
1answer
916 views
How to make CloudFlare cache everything?
I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain,
I want it to cache it.
Is this possible?
(There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, ...
