The Web cache reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Web cache

Web caching is the caching of web resources (HTML pages, images, etc.) in order to reduce Web sites access times.

All major Web sites, that routinely receive millions of queries per day, require some form of web caching.

Examples of web caches are:

• memcached
• Akamai
• Squid cache

External links and references

• Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

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