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Caching HTTP Headers, Cache-Control: max-age

Caching speeds up repeated page views and saves a lot of traffic by preventing downloading of unchanged content every page view. We can use Cache-Control: max-age=… to inform browser that the component won’t be changed for defined period. This way we avoid unneeded further requests if browser already has the component in its cache and therefore primed-cache page views will be performed faster. Modern browsers able to cache static files even without any cache control headers using som...