Cache It If You Can

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Web Cache

It's no secret that Google caches your pages. What exactly is a web cache? A web cache sits between the user/client or a lot of users/clients and watches the page requests and saves a copy of the page. This way, if a request for the same page is called again it has a copy already in it's cache, resulting in faster access times. Or so the response time appears faster to your site. Then you have to wonder when your page is cached and your host shits the bed on the weekend, no one is answering the phone, WTF, shit happens. Rant on the boards that your sites are down, and you still get a sign up? Is it all that bad if your page is cached? Yeah it is ... but what about a FPA. Remember your sites are down. What are the chances that the "Sponsor" FPA is cached with the images? What are your chances of this surfer clicking into the sponsor tour? What are the chances of your site being down over the weekend? Do you really even care if your content pages are cached? Even if your page is cached the links still click out to your sites or a sponsor site, do they not? Unless it's a protected page, a webmasters page etc. To prevent caching use the tag below carefully it doesn't always work. Cash it if you can!

<META http equiv="Pragma" content=" no cache ">

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Types of Caches

Browser caches are our friends, so we have been taught. Text is much faster but preload your images when building your free site pages. Preload two banners on the main page, use the same ones on the gallery pages give the appearence of being faster. Let them stare at the sponsors banner as your thumbs load.

Proxy Caches are for lots of users, big companies usually set up behind a firewall that want to reduce their bandwidth usage, latency and network traffic. Since a proxy cache is shared by lots of users, page calls can be reduced by 50% or more.

Just remember that you want pages cached where you won't be changing the content often, like a filter page with sponsor links. Just in case your host shits the bed for the weekend, anything is possible.

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