What is browser caching?
Caching is a concept a kin to learning by route in a biological organism. When we perform a task over and over again we tend to get faster at it, and we recall things without question. Once a computer performs any type of data reads, it has an option to save that data in a special area for faster retrieval if there should happen to be a next time that same data is requested. That is called a cache (pronounced cash). If a browser’s cache is turned on, the browser will cache everything. Every page visited and every image that is seen by the user is saved in a designated local folder. Frequently, this data occupies a heck of a lot of storage. What that means is, if a browser visits a page next time around and detects an image of the same name, and also finds a copy of that image in its cached space, it will use its local copy instead of taking the time of downloading it, and then displaying it. The browser does the same thing with whole pages. If a local copy is present, that is what the
