Caching

Check Cached Page to See if Redirect Has Been Picked up by Google

January 22, 2020 Source

Check if Google has switched the canonical version after a redirect by seeing if the cached version of the page is the target page. You can also use the GSC URL Inspection Tool to check the canonical version.

Google’s Cached Version of a Page Can be Out of Sync With Live Page

April 18, 2019 Source

Google’s cached version of a page isn’t exactly what is used for indexing and can, sometimes, be a bit out of sync with the live page. Also, the cached date doesn’t reflect the last time that Googlebot crawled the page.

ETags & If-Modified-Since Headers Can Improve UX Due to Caching Functionality

April 7, 2019 Source

Google doesn’t always use ETags and If-Modified-Since HTTP headers when crawling as not many sites use them and often get them wrong. However, they can impact UX because they can improve caching of resources for returning users.

ETags & If-Modified-Since Headers Can Improve UX Due to Caching Functionality

March 19, 2019 Source

Google doesn’t always use ETags and If-Modified-Since HTTP headers when crawling as not many sites use them and often get them wrong. However, they can impact UX because they can improve caching of resources for returning users.

Google Caches CSS & JS Files so Doesn’t Need to Continuously Fetch Them

February 8, 2019 Source

Google caches things like CSS files so that it doesn’t have to fetch them again in the future. Combining multiple CSS files into one can help Googlebot with this process, as can minifying JavaScript.

Google Cache Shows Static HTML, Not JavaScript Rendered HTML

December 21, 2018 Source

Google cache shows the static HTML version of a page, so if the whole page is built using JavaScript, it may not be shown in the cache.

404 Cached Pages Can Occur After Site Switched to Mobile-first Indexing

September 18, 2018 Source

Cached pages returning 404s can be a problem on Google’s side rather than an issue with crawling and indexing. This can happen when sites are moved to mobile-first indexing, as they tend not to have a cached page.

Google Recrawls Indexed AMP Pages to Update Cache

September 7, 2018 Source

If Google find an AMP page that has already been indexed, a recrawl of that page will be triggered after a period of time to update the AMP cache.

Avoid Hosting Content Externally for CDNs

July 24, 2018 Source

You should host as much of your content as you can on your domain when utilising a CDN because if you host content externally and want to change providers, you have no control over setting up redirects for migrating the content.