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What is a Hard Refresh?

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What is a Hard Refresh?

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If you visit a website frequently, your web browser stores elements of the web page in a cache so that they do not have to be downloaded again each time you visit, making your browsing faster. These elements might include photographs, pages you have already viewed, or style sheets. In some cases, when the website is changed, you may not be able to view the changes because you are actually viewing the cache. There are two ways to solve this problem: a hard refresh, which bypasses the cache and loads the actual page as it is stored on the server, and clearing your cache, which is something you should do periodically anyway. To refresh a website normally, you hit the “refresh” button, or the F5 key, or press the command key for your operating system, such as the Apple key or the Control key, and the letter R. To hard refresh, the command or control key is held down while clicking on the refresh button or pressing F5. Alternatively, the user can hold down the shift key, the command/control

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On just about every web browser is a button referred to as the refresh button. The refresh button allows one to reload a web page whose contents may have changed over time. However, because web browsers cache or maintain files related to the web page such as graphic, JavaScript, stylesheet and other files, most browsers avoid reloading every referenced file in order to cut down on the amount of time it takes to refresh a web page. This behavior can cause some undesirable side effects when those referenced files have changed and need to be reloaded. These side effects subsequently led to the creation of the hard refresh. A hard refresh is a variation of the refresh command, often a Ctrl-click or Option-click combination, that reloads referenced files (usually) in addition to reloading the main content of the web page itself.

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