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stale-while-revalidate

Category
Network / Connectivity
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 75)
Intent stage
Prepare to ship

Summary

The stale-while-revalidate attribute is used by the Cache-Control header and defines an extra window of time during which a cache (proxy, user agents) can use a stale asset while it revalidates it asynchronously. This improves subsequent page load latencies as stale assets are non longer in the critical path.

Standards & signals

Explainers: https://web.dev/stale-while-revalidate/

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