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This browser tweak saved 60% of requests to Facebook

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

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