“The best request is a request that does not need to communicate with the server: a local copy of the response allows us to eliminate all network latency and avoid data charges for the data transfer. To achieve this, the HTTP specification allows the server to return a number of different Cache-Contr…”— Google Developers, developers.google.com
“Fetching something over the network is both slow and expensive: large responses require many roundtrips between the client and server, which delays when they are available and can be processed by the browser, and also incurs data costs for the visitor. As a result, the ability to cache and reuse pre…”— Google Developers, developers.google.com
“Intelligent content caching is one of the most effective ways to improve the experience for your site's visitors. Caching, or temporarily storing content from previous requests, is part of the core content delivery strategy implemented within the HTTP protocol. Components throughout the delivery pat…”— Justin Ellingwood, digitalocean.com