How To Re-Fresh Your Browser

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We always send you an email when updates are performed. If you ever return to your website expecting to find updated information but it isn't there? This can be caused by the fact that your browser will cache information on your computer for speed and efficiency.

Refreshing or Reloading Your Browser Window

What is browser cache?

In order to speed up web browsing, web browsers are designed to download web pages and store them locally on your computer's hard drive in an area called "cache". Browser cache (also know as Internet cache) contains records of every item you have viewed or downloaded while Internet surfing. So when you visit the same page for a second time, the browser speeds up display time by loading the page locally from cache instead of downloading everything again.

Although storing Internet cache makes web browser faster as it usually takes your computer less time to display a web page when it can open page's elements or even the entire page from your local Temporary Internet Files folder, You sometimes want to overrule the Internet cache, for Example to see changes you made to a webpage we just uploaded. Onthis page, you can find tutorials on how to refresh the cache from your browser.

The two main reasons cache is used are:

Speed for You

At least the perception of speed.

It can take some browsers across some Internet connections an order of minutes to download large files or images. If you return to a website and your computer recognizes that you have been there before it will look inside its cache for associated files. If it finds them, that is what is displayed for you to see.

If you navigate through one website that uses the same logo at the top of every page, most likely your computer downloaded it once, the first time, and calls up the stored image on each subsequent page.

It takes less time for your browser to call up files from your computer and display them than it would to call up files from a server at another location. This makes the Internet seem faster and more responsive.

Efficiency of the Internet

If your browser has to download a file from a server every time you hit your back button or return to a website, you are taxing, not only the resources of your own computer but also the network resources between your computer and the server where the file is located. Because your browser uses cache, it reduces the amount traffic across the Internet and the amount of bandwidth at the server where the original file is located.

Although there may be higher speed connections, most users are still paying for access to the Internet with limitations on bandwidth, or connection speed. Similarly, websites are hosted for a fee and generally have a price associated with the amount of bandwidth they use. When caching is utilized it saves resources, and possibly money, for you and the owner of the website you are visiting, again.

Tip: Refreshing or Reloading your Browser

To make sure you have the most up-to-date version of a web page you can refresh your browser. Your browser will then access a resource on the Internet to update your page and update the stored cache content on your computer.

iPhone:

You can refresh just about any page in the Safari browser on the iPhone by tapping the circular arrow button in the upper-right corner of the Safari window to the right of the Address Bar. This will cause Safari to go out to the Web server for the page you're viewing and grab the latest version of it.

Android phones:

Start default browser Press menu button Click 'More' Click 'Settings' Clear Cache, Clear History, Clear all Cookie Data. Load the stylesheet in another tab directly with its url and refresh it. If you see the changes reflected there then it'll also change the cached version that loads when you refresh your webpage.

Desktops:

On the most popular browsers you can press the F5 key or click on the refresh button. Look inside your browser toolbar for the refresh button, an icon similar to these:

Some specific methods are:

In Internet Explorer:

Right Click on your screen and inside the pop-up menu choose "Refresh"
or, press your F5 key
or, from the menu, select "View" and select "Refresh"
or, click on the refresh button

In FireFox:

With your mouse, click on the refersh arrow to pull in new content.(above surrounded by yellow)

Right Click on your screen and inside the pop-up menu choose "Reload"
or, press your F5 key
or, from the menu, select "View" and select "Reload"
or, press <Ctrl> + R
or, click on the reload button

In Netscape Browser:

Right Click on your screen and inside the pop-up menu choose "Reload"
or, press your F5 key
or, from the menu, select "View" and select "Reload"
or, press <Ctrl> + R
or, click on the reload button

In Chrome:

With your mouse, click on the refersh arrow to pull in new content.(above surrounded by yellow)

The easiest workaround is to reload the entire frameset (CTRL+R)

In most browsers you can go into the advanced settings and clean out the cache and/or set limits on storage space used. However, cache is a good thing and if you are not sure about the settings you should accept the defaults.