We update one particular site almost daily. It is also referenced from PetFinders (it’s a shelter site).
Some of the folks involved complain that the site hasn’t been updated, when it has. We will tell them to refresh, but why should they have to.
I very rarely have to manually update a site to see new content.
Is there something at our end that we can do?
Thanks.
Bob
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On 21 August2009, at 10:56 AM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
Some of the folks involved complain that the site hasn’t been
updated, when it has. We will tell them to refresh, but why should
they have to.
My browser has a setting that tells it how often it should check to
see if a site has been updated. For example, I set it for 12 hours.
If I go to the site 6 hours after the last visit, it simply pulls the
page from the cache. If the site was updated in that 6 hours, I miss
the update unless I manually refresh the page.
I would suspect most people don't know such a setting exists. They
may unknowingly have it set for something like a week. In which case
their browser wouldn’t go looking for an update until after you’ve
updated the site seven times.
There must be a way to override this setting and make the browser
look for a new page each request. News sites and weather report
sites must use something so the visitor gets a new page each time,
but I don’t know what it is.
Peter
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