# Does discourse have a cache?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-a-cache/112698>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-a-cache/112698 "2019-03-27T13:08:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-a-cache/112698/2 "2019-03-28T00:20:29Z")

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What do you mean by “cache”? Discourse benefits from use of a CDN, for the standard reasons – shared web / JS assets that don’t change much can be cached either on the user’s device, or by a local CDN node geographically closer to the user.

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