Check whether network response is coming from server or Chrome cache

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Google Chrome Problem Overview


In Google Chrome, how you can check which files are served from the browser cache, and which comes from the server?

Google Chrome Solutions


Solution 1 - Google Chrome

In Chrome Developer Tools switch to the Network tab and on the Size column it will either give you the size of the downloaded content or say (from disk/memory cache).

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Solution 2 - Google Chrome

If you can't see the size column then you may need to close this window

close the headers, preview, response tab

The size column will tell you if the response is coming from cache or over the network.

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