Caching Demystified: Inspect, Clear, and Disable Caches

Dale St. Marthe
Dale St. Marthe

Caches make your websites load faster, but can be confusing to optimize. The following video details how DevTools can help you inspect and troubleshoot some common web caches.

Watch the video to learn how to:

  • Inspect and clear caches with the Network panel.
  • Influence what Chrome caches with Cache-Control.
  • Empty cache and hard reload.
  • Disable cache.
  • Filter resources cached by service workers.
  • Inspect and disable service worker cache with the Application panel.
  • Simulate devices with low storage.

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