I am wondering if I should use the Meta 'Cache" tag?
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I am working on removing unnecessary meta tags that have little impact on SEO and I have read so many mixed reviews about using the Meta 'Cache' tag.
I need to informative information on whether or not this tag should be used.
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Sure. Thank you
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Thanks a lot for helping clarify my understanding of the (cache; no-cache ) tag. I will go ahead make the appropriate decision based on the amount of times we update our site. Thanks for your help.
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Cache tags are associated with caching of the page for faster downloads .
instructs the browser to download the information from the local cache instead of getting information from the network server allowing decreased load time.
The exact opposite is where the browser will not use the local cache and download the information from the server.
As a best practice, cache should be controlled through HTTP headers ("Expires", "Cache-Control: max-age" and "Last-Modified") instead of using Meta.
The other option is to use .htaccess code for caching of images and other content to speed up load time.
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