Translated from English, cache (cashe) means "cache" or "secret reserves". And in browsers and, in particular, in Google Chrome, this word is called a special storage that contains downloaded web page elements: media files (audio and video), photos, GIFs, pictures, texts.
Such a “container” is necessary for the browser to quickly display a web page when it is requested again. That is, it will not reload the elements, but will “get” them out of the cache.
Perhaps you already have a question: “Why clean the cache if such a responsible mission is assigned to it?” The need to clear the cache in Google Chrome can be compared to cleaning the workplace, for example, after assembling or fixing some design, equipment (auto, furniture, computer, etc.). You will not leave oily rags, scattered tools, shavings and sawdust, traces of fuel oil and other signs of your labors where you worked. That's right, you need to remove everything!
In our case, the exact same concept. They worked on the Internet (talked on social networks, "climbed" the sites) - you need to clear the cache in the Google Chrome browser. In other words, clean up after yourself.
And if this procedure is not systematically performed after Internet sessions, the cache will become cluttered and, moreover, absolutely useless files will occupy the free space of the system partition (drive C). And it can even reach such a point (in especially advanced cases) that the Google Chrome browser cache "swells up" to incredible sizes. And the computer’s operating system will sound the alarm: “There is no free space on C!”. After all, even for one session of web surfing, tens or hundreds of megabytes of temporary files can accumulate in the storage. Having taken advantage, of course, they need to be removed. Cleaning Chrome first!
This article will tell you how to clear the cache in Google Chrome in various ways - completely and selectively.
Full cleaning on PC
Method number 1: using the standard function
1. In the upper right corner of Google Chrome, click on the menu button (the “three dots” icon).
2. In the drop-down list, position the cursor on the item “Additional tools”.
3. In the submenu, click on the option "Delete data .... ".
Also, the cleaning panel can be accessed using the "hot" keys - "Ctrl + Shift + Del."
And if you want to go from the "History" tab, in the right part of it click the link "Clear ...".
4. In the settings menu (the panel that opens over the page) in the first column, set the value of the time period “for all time” (to clear the browser cache completely).
5. Set the "bird" in the line "Images .... saved in cache. "
Attention! Through this panel, cookies can also be cleared in the browser. To perform this operation, you must enable the option "Cookies ..." (also put a "bird" with a mouse click).
6. To clear the cache, click Clear History.
Method number 2: using the Click & Clean addon
1. Go to the official extension store for Google Chrome: the “Services” icon in the panel under the address bar → Online store ...
2. In the "Search ..." field, type the name of the add-on - Click & Clean. Press the Enter key.
3. Go to the addon page. Click the "Install" button. Wait for the download and installation to complete.
4. Click the add-on button (it will appear at the top right in the browser window after installation).
5. To clear the browser cache, in the drop-down tiled menu, select the block "Delete personal data ...".
Attention! The addon allows you to assign additional actions along with removing the cache. To install them:
hover over the cleaning unit;
click on the appeared “gear”;
in the new window, check the “checkboxes” next to the actions to be performed (for example, “Close all tabs before cleaning”);
click the “Clean” button.
Cleaning on mobile devices
To clear the cache on smartphones and tablets running iOS and Android, you need to perform almost the same actions:
- Open Chrome.
- In the panel, tap on the "Menu" button.
- In the list of options, go to: History → Clear History.
- In the list of items, select "Files ... in the cache."
- In the setting of the cleaning period, set the value "for all time".
- Touch the "Clear History" button with your finger.
How to remove the cache of only the open (current) page?
Sometimes it is impossible to track changes on an open web page that occur over short periods of time, due to the fact that the browser, at its next request, loads "obsolete" (previously loaded) items from the cache.
In such cases, it is necessary to perform selective cleaning of the storage - delete only the files of the current page. And then perform its update, reload. Step by step, this operation is performed as follows:
1. To enter the editing mode, while in the Chrome window, press the F12 key (the menu for tuning will open on the right side of the window).
2. Hover over the Refresh Page button (located on the right side of the address bar). Press the left button and hold it until the menu opens.
3. In the list of options, click "Clear cache and hardware reboot" so that the browser reloads the page from the server without accessing the repository.
4. To exit the editing mode, in the "Elements .... "Click on the cross icon.
This concludes our review. Have a successful cleaning! Always keep your browser clean and tidy. Details on viewing the contents of the Google Chrome cache.
It is impossible to guess when the page with the information of interest will be deleted. At any time, the resource can be blocked or brought to a new domain. Because of this, finding the content that the user was viewing previously is difficult. We have to study again the results of distribution in Google and Yandex. However, there is no guarantee that the owner of the computer will find what he was looking for.
What is a cache and how does it work
The function is built into almost all modern programs. The browser stores information that the user views to reduce the time it takes to reload content. All files are stored in the temporary clipboard folder, which is most often located on drive C. There are: texts, html files with data about the distribution and pictures. The number of stored materials is limited only by the amount of internal computer memory and the settings of a separate browser.
Cash is needed to speed up the system. Each time the owner of the PC opens the link, the browser saves all published information to the selected address. When you re-request the same address, the browser finds the necessary file in the temporary data folder and loads it, adjusting the changed information. This reduces traffic consumption and allows you to not overload the line. Each duplicate is stored in the device’s memory, so the user can even download content that is not available on the Internet.
Search engines are also capable of making copies in cash. If the site owner deleted it or the resource was blocked, the user will still be able to see the page he is interested in. It will not be possible to see the latest changes or make any changes on it. Also, users will not be able to:
- leave comments;
- evaluate records;
- publish new materials.
How to find site cache on Google
To open a copy in a search engine, you must enter the name of the site and the article of interest in the request. In the results found, select the appropriate option. To the right of the address is an arrow pointing down. By clicking on it, the user opens up additional features. To download a file from the Google cache, you need to click on the “Saved copy” button. The browser opens a new tab in which the page of interest is displayed. You can open the resource directly, without using the results of the issuance: for this, enter the request cash.link, Where the word “link” is the domain of the necessary service.
Interesting fact!
The search engine caches all links daily, so by downloading a copy, the owner of the computer will see the latest available version of the site.
Search for a copy of the page in Yandex
The mechanics of cash on a Russian resource is no different from the Google search engine. To open a copy of a site of interest, you need to make a request for its domain. Next to the address is an arrow, from which the menu of advanced features falls out. To download a duplicate resource from the cache, select the option “Saved copy”. In the tab that opens, Yandex always indicates the download date of the displayed version of the site.
How to remove a site from the cache
To speed up indexing of the page by search engines, resource owners remove old versions from the cache. So, Yandex and Google do not bypass the links that are already registered with their system. Both systems periodically update the data, but the robot does this. Due to this specificity, updating information takes longer than with the intervention of the site owner.
To remove a page from the Google cache, you must:
- Go to the Webmaster service.
- Go to the “Delete URL” menu section.
- Click on the “Temporarily Hide” button so that the pages no longer appear in the search results.
- Enter the link address.
- Click the “Continue” button.
- Select the desired type of deletion, in this case, the second item.
- Confirm request.
- Wait until the application moves from the status “Pending” to “Completed”.
Attention!
The Yandex search engine also supports clearing the page cache, but for this you will have to completely remove the link from the directory. In this case, all statistics and indexes are reset.
A blocked site is not a sentence. Yandex and Google services constantly create a cache of all resources, so users will be able to access them even after deleting the content from the servers. No additional software is required for this. You can open a copy in just 2 clicks. In this case, it will correspond to the latest current version of the site. Pages from the cache can save web programmers if changes to the code ruin the entire interface, and remembering how it should look is impossible.
The word cache can be heard quite often in various areas of IT, today we will deal with page cache site. The term itself means that search engines save copies of pages from a certain number, usually from the last time a site visited a robot. You can at any time find and use a copy (cache) of the page for your needs.
It’s pretty good that search engines keep pages on their servers for a while and give us a chance to take advantage of this. A lot of resources and money are allocated for storing cached pages, but they pay for their help, since we still need to go to their search engines.
What is the cache (copies) of pages for?
There are different situations when working with sites.
As always, you have a lot of work, but not enough time and not enough attention for everything. There are cases when work is underway with the site, suppose a design change or minor edits to the template, text. And at one point you realize that somewhere you made a mistake and the text disappeared or part of the website design disappeared. Well, it happens and everyone probably dealt with it.
At the moment, you don’t have backups, you don’t remember how everything looked from the beginning either. In this case, a copy of the page, which can be found in the cache of both Yandex and Google, can help, see how it was originally and corrected.
Or second case, You changed the text a little, in order to increase it and want to see the updated page on which you made changes or not. You can check using the page that is in the cache, for this we are looking for this page and look at the result.
It also happens that a site is not accessible, for one reason or another, and you need to go to it. In this case, a copy of the page can be found which can be found by the methods listed below.
In general, I think it became clear that using the page cache is necessary and useful.
How to find the page in the cache Google, Yandex
First, let's look at how to search in the Google search engine.
Method number 1.
You go to the search engine page and write down the address of the page you want to find and see a copy. I will take our site as an example:
We write down the name of the page, site in the search bar, press “Enter” and see where the page you were looking for is displayed. We look at the snippet and there de URL (address) to the right of it there is not a big down arrow, click on it and we have the item “Saved copy”. We click on it and we will be redirected to a copy of the page from a certain number.
Method number 2.
The method can be called semi-automatic, since it is necessary to copy the address that is below and substitute the domain of your site instead of site.ru. As a result, you will get the exact same copy of the page.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q\u003dcache:site.ru
Method number 3.
You can view the cache using plugins for browsers or online services. I use for these purposes.
Here you can see when the robot last visited the resource, respectively, and a copy of the page will be for this number.
Now let's look at how to search for a cache in the Yandex search engine.
Method number 1.
The method is the same as for the Google system. We go to the search engine page and prescribe the address of the page you want to find and see a copy. Again, I’ll take our site as an example and write:
We write down the name of the page, site in the search bar, press “Enter” and see the search results, where the page you were looking for is displayed. We look at the snippet and there de to the right of it there is not a big down arrow, click on it and we have the item “Saved copy”. We click on it and we will be redirected to a copy of the page from a certain number.
Method number 2.
We use additional plug-ins for browsers. Read a little higher all the same as for Google.
If the page is not in, then there is a high probability that it is not in the cache either. If the page was previously in the index, then perhaps it was saved in it.
How to clear cache in Yandex, Google
It may be necessary to remove a page from the Yandex or Google cache, or even hide a page that was previously indexed and cached from prying eyes. To do this, you must wait until the search engine itself throws out this page in a natural way if you previously deleted it. You can prevent the page indexing in the file or use the tag:
Just look carefully with the tag, do not put it in the general site template for there will be a ban on caching the entire site. For these purposes, it is best to use additional plugins or programmers who previously engaged in such work.
Now let's see how the search engine Google and Yandex can clear the cache (clear, delete page).
Clear Page Cache on Google
Google search engine approached this question from the right side and created such a tool as “ Remove URLs»In Webmaster Tools. To use it, you need to go to the webmaster tools at:
www.google.com/webmasters/
Clear page cache in Google Webmaster In order to clear the cache or delete the entire page (or you can immediately delete and clear the cache together), you must click on the " Temporarily hide"And enter the url address of the page you want to clear and click" Proceed«.
Now in this window when you click on the list of " Request type»You can see several ways to remove and clean both the page from Google index and cleaning cache.
- If you need to completely delete the page and cache, then we use the first method.
- If you just need to clean it, then we use the second method. As a rule, for our example it is necessary to use it. The page remains in the index, but the cache is deleted and the next time the robot arrives, it will appear there again.
- If you need to temporarily hide, then use the third method. It is used when the pages do not have time to fill up with quality content. In this case, hiding it for a while would be better.
As soon as you select one of the methods, in this case the 2nd, click on the “ Send request«.
After clicking, we get a page where you can see that this page has been added for deletion from the cache and is located in the “ Expectation". Now it remains only to wait. As a rule, this procedure takes from several minutes to several hours.
If you didn’t correctly specify the page and want to cancel, you can click on the button “ Cancel«.
After you go to the Delete URLs tool after a while, you can see the status of "Completed". This means that Googlebot went to the page and cleared its history.
Clear (delete) a page in Yandex
The Yandex search engine has a similar tool in the tools for webmasters, but there is one “BUT". There is no cache cleaning as such, you can completely remove the page from the PS index and at the same time its entire history will be deleted.
In order to use this tool, you need to go to Yandex webmaster using the link:
webmaster.yandex.ua/delurl.xml
and enter the required URL into the line.
The search engine will exclude this address after a while "AP". As a rule, it takes a couple of Yandex to do this, so you will need to wait.
If you have questions, ask them in the comments, we are always in touch!
Hello, friends! Today's article will be dedicated to one of the most popular Internet browsers among users - Google Chrome. We will briefly review what cache is, increase the cache memory in Chrome and create a shortcut for the browser on the desktop.
Browser cache - what is it
As always, before practice I will give you a few terms. After all, how are we going to increase something if we do not know what it is.
A cache is an intermediate buffer that stores information in use. When viewing sites, videos, listening to audio on the Internet, the files uploaded by the web browser, for all of the above, are stored in a special folder on the hard drive - this is the folder with the cache.
When you visit a site on the Internet for the first time, to display its contents, the browser accesses the server and downloads the necessary information from there, which falls into the previously mentioned folder. Having come to the same site for the second time, the browser will take all the necessary files from the cache. Accordingly, this will load the page faster and use less traffic.
Its volume in the browser is limited. Therefore, when free space runs out, old records are erased and new ones are recorded. If you notice that online games or videos have started to slow down, you can try to increase the browser cache.
In order to free up space on your hard drive, or if you notice that errors have appeared in the browser, you can. Read the detailed article by clicking on the link.
We increase the cache of Chrome
Locate the Chrome shortcut on the desktop and right-click on it. Select the "Properties" item from the context menu.
In the properties window, click on the "Shortcut" tab. In the "Object" field, put italics at the end, press the spacebar and paste: –disk-cache-dir \u003d "with: \\ chromeсache", again the space and: —disk-cache-size \u003d 1073741824. Click Apply and OK.
The word disk in both cases has two hyphens. The number 1073741824 is the volume in bytes. Set the desired value. In this case, 1073741824 bytes is 1 GB.
How to create a Chrome shortcut on your desktop
If, following the instructions above, you didn’t find the shortcut you need, let's look at how to make a Chrome shortcut on the desktop.
Open "Computer" and find the folder in which Google Chrome is installed. More specifically, we need the executable file. If during installation you did not select another folder, then most likely you need to go along the path: C: \\ Program Files \\ Google \\ Chrome \\ Application.
Find the file you need here. So that there is no doubt, right-click on it and go to "Properties". On the "General" tab in the "File type" should be the extension .exe.
In Google Chrome, as in other browsers, problems with page loading are usually associated with the fact that residual and temporary files take up quite a lot of space in the device’s memory. It is recommended that you clean the cache periodically, even if everything is in order. In Google Chrome, this procedure is very simple and does not take much time.
Cache: what is it?
Before we proceed directly to the cleaning procedure, consider what exactly is a cache. A term came from the English word cashe, which means a cache or secret reserve. Without going into technical details, we note that this is kew inGoogleChrome is a kind of repository that provides quick access to those sites that the user has already visited. By the way, the easiest way not to lose sight of the necessary web resources is to download. Thus, with just a few clicks, you can be on the right resource.
Actually, cache is a great way to save traffic. For example, if you watched a video on any site, then when you access it again, you won’t need to download it completely again. A copy of the file will already be placed in the computer’s memory, so the download will be much faster.
But there is a negative point in this situation. If the site has been changed, then its new look will not always be displayed.An outdated image of a web page remained in my memory, which often appears on the screen. In this case, it is mandatory to clear the cache so that the site loads correctly.
Clear cache in Google Chrome
If we are talking about how to clear the cache in Google Chrome, then the procedure is as simple as possible. First, launch the browser. Next, simultaneously press Shift, Ctrl and Delete. This is the fastest way to open cache and history. In addition, you can go another way. In the browser we find a button that looks like three horizontal lines, in the first versions it was designated as a gear. This button is called Setup and Control.
Click on the tool, and in the context menu that appears, select the Settings item. A new tab will open. In it, go to the very bottom of the page and click on the line where it is proposed to show additional settings. Click on the item Personal data. In it we are interested in the Clear history link.
After you open this window, you will have the opportunity not only to clear the cache, but also to delete the history of downloads and visits to websites. In addition, here you can clean cookies, saved passwords, etc. In other words, put checkmarks next to items indicating the actions we want to perform. After that, click Clear History.
Basically, that's all you need to know about how to clear your cache in Google Chrome.. However, it should be added that here you can set various time intervals for which you need to clean the memory. That is, you will not delete all the files, but only certain ones. I would also like to note how cookies differ from cache files. Cookies are traces of a user on the Internet. In other words, this is the information exchanged between the website you are visiting and the browser. They are also recommended to be removed periodically, as they can glitch, clog memory, slow down the work of the Internet browser.
We examined how you can clear the cache in Google Chrome, and how, for example, to clear the cache in internet explorer you will learn from this. An easier way to open the History menu is to use a hotkey combination. If you want to understand in more detail where it is located, then go here through the Browser Settings. Periodically do this procedure, especially if any site ceases to display correctly in an Internet browser.