This browser tweak saved 60% of requests to Facebook
Jan 26, 2017Nate Schloss, Ben Maurer

Summary
This post details Meta's collaboration with Chrome and Firefox to significantly improve browser caching efficiency. It introduces the concept of content-addressed URLs and the `cache-control: immutable` header as key strategies to reduce unnecessary revalidation requests, leading to a 60% reduction in static resource requests and improved page load times.