Now this will work, but, I’m not going to focus on it because often it’s easy to also delete all your internet history and cookies etc as well, which means you have to re-log on to your favorite website etc., as well as re-download all the cached content you DO want to keep cached. One is by going in to your browser settings and deleting your entire cache.

There are two ways to prevent your browser from loading the cached content and thus forcing it to download the fresh content. The problem is, when new content is added to a website, the browser often doesn’t know the content is new, and keeps displaying the cached content, and that’s why it seems that nothing is “updating”. This can and does speed up your overall internet experience. In a nutshell the browser cache stores parts of websites such as code and images in a folder on your computer, so that when you visit the website the next time, the browser loads the things needed to display the website from your computer instead of downloading them again. A Web Browser is the program you open on your computer to get to the internet ( Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome. The cache, or more specifically in this case the browser cache, is a function of all modern web browsers. If you don’t feel like reading, just skip to the bottom! What is the “Cache”? For people that don’t know what is going on, it can seem baffling that I tell them their new updates are finished, yet when they visit the site, nothing seems to have changed! Below I will try to quickly explain why this happens, and what to do about it.

Being a web designer, I know that problems with browser cache preventing clients from seeing my updates is a continual issue.

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