Caching Strategy

Webflow Caching Strategy

When you consider your caching strategy, you want to think of your site as a well-defined set of content which has well-defined characteristics to identify them, and clear expectations around how often they'll change.

Understanding these things is essential to a good caching strategy.

I encourage you to devise your own strategy, but there are a few conveniences here since Webflow has a specific approach to its hosting design;

• The sitemap is always at _/sitemap.xml
• RSS feeds are always named _rss.xml
• Images are stored on a separate server(s), and can never be edited. If you change an image, Webflow uploads the new file and creates a new URL
• CMS data is always under a predictable path, like _/blog/*

Outside of this, you want to think about your site's unique content as well;

• How often does the homepage change?
• What about other static page like About and Contact?
• Do you have "directory" pages like /blog?
• How often do you edit content in your CMS collections? Note this is not the same as adding content. If you add a new blog article, it will be uncached and seen immediately. If you edit a blog article, it will likely be cached and your changes will only be seen once the cache expires.

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