Browser & Web Performance · Junior · Question 43 of 75

Which caching policy fits the HTML page of a frequently updated site that uses hashed asset URLs?

✓Correct answer: no-cache (or a short max-age), so users quickly get the HTML pointing to new assets
2max-age=31536000, immutable, like the assets
3No Cache-Control header at all

Explanation

If the HTML is cached for a year, users keep loading old asset URLs. Without any header browsers may cache it heuristically.

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