Ryan Albrecht digs into how efficient browser caching is on Facebook.com. They release code twice a day, breaking cache as they do, so they were curious if that was too often for browser cache to be efficient. <\/p>\n
After collecting data, they are seeing 44.6% users getting an empty cache, which they determine effective:<\/p>\n
The best practices tell us to use external styles and scripts, include Cache-Control and ETag headers, compress data on the wire, use URLs to expire cached resources, and separate frequently updated resources from long-lived ones. All of these techniques work together on any website, not just one at Facebook scale.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m not sure at what level they would be determined not useful though. Seems browser caching is an easy enough thing to implement that if 90% of users got an empty cache it would still be worth it, if just for the speed of that session alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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