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Website Cache Explained: How it Makes Your Site Faster
“Cache” is a term coined back in 1967 by IBM System Journal’s editor Lyle R. Johnson. It works on a simple principle: providing temporary storage for computed content to be accessed later. It acts as a memory bank, making it easy to access saved data rather than re-downloading and processing it every time you visit a website.
If I ask you what 5x4 is, you’ll know the answer is 20. You didn’t need to work out the math - you’ve done this multiplication so often that you no longer need to. You just remember the answer. That is how caching works.
Websites are viewed thousands or sometimes millions of times per month. Each time a browser requests a web page, the server must do a bunch of calculations – pulling posts and images, calculating who’s on air now, deciding if the events are current, displaying the correct banner ads, weather information, and so on. Cache stores these calculations and presents them with a much faster web experience.
Today, we will cover different levels of cache and why they benefit your radio station website.
For more detailed show notes, visit https://www.skyrocketradio.com/podcast/website-cache-explained-how-it-makes-your-site-faster.
Browser Caching: Browser caching allows your browser to store these files for specific amounts of time, so it doesn’t need to retrieve them every time you visit the website.
Server Cache: Server cache speeds up websites for everyone, not just for returning visitors. When a browser requests a webpage, the server takes time to process the information. After that first request, the server “remembers” the processed content and delivers it faster to subsequent visitors.
Downsides to Cache
However great the caching system is, no one is entirely safe from cache-related issues. Cache issues can specifically be related to a user’s device, the content management system, or the hosting service.
Wrapping Up
Caching is a technology that increases the speed of your website. When used correctly, it will result in significantly faster load times and decrease the load on your server. Depending on your hosting provider, an increased load on your server could result in higher hosting fees.
If you aren’t already caching your web pages, please look into it immediately.
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“Cache” is a term coined back in 1967 by IBM System Journal’s editor Lyle R. Johnson. It works on a simple principle: providing temporary storage for computed content to be accessed later. It acts as a memory bank, making it easy to access saved data rather than re-downloading and processing it every time you visit a website.
If I ask you what 5x4 is, you’ll know the answer is 20. You didn’t need to work out the math - you’ve done this multiplication so often that you no longer need to. You just remember the answer. That is how caching works.
Websites are viewed thousands or sometimes millions of times per month. Each time a browser requests a web page, the server must do a bunch of calculations – pulling posts and images, calculating who’s on air now, deciding if the events are current, displaying the correct banner ads, weather information, and so on. Cache stores these calculations and presents them with a much faster web experience.
Today, we will cover different levels of cache and why they benefit your radio station website.
For more detailed show notes, visit https://www.skyrocketradio.com/podcast/website-cache-explained-how-it-makes-your-site-faster.
Browser Caching: Browser caching allows your browser to store these files for specific amounts of time, so it doesn’t need to retrieve them every time you visit the website.
Server Cache: Server cache speeds up websites for everyone, not just for returning visitors. When a browser requests a webpage, the server takes time to process the information. After that first request, the server “remembers” the processed content and delivers it faster to subsequent visitors.
Downsides to Cache
However great the caching system is, no one is entirely safe from cache-related issues. Cache issues can specifically be related to a user’s device, the content management system, or the hosting service.
Wrapping Up
Caching is a technology that increases the speed of your website. When used correctly, it will result in significantly faster load times and decrease the load on your server. Depending on your hosting provider, an increased load on your server could result in higher hosting fees.
If you aren’t already caching your web pages, please look into it immediately.