Configure Internet Explorer to read static files (Html, CSS, Images, Javascript) from Cache

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          The static files like Html, CSS, Images and Java scripts are usually configured to read from Browser cache at the Website. This means that, when the user visits the website for the first time, these files are downloaded from web site and stored in the Temporary Internet folder of windows.

When the user visits the same website subsequently, the static files are loaded from the Temporary Internet folder instead of downloading again from the web site. This would help the user to see the pages getting loaded quickly in the browser.

         When Browser caching is enabled at the website level, browsers like Chrome takes time to load when the users visits the site for the first time and loads quickly for the subsequent times.

          But Internet Explorer always downloads the static files from the website even when browser caching is enabled. This behavior is observed whenever the site is visited through the first instance of Internet explorer. If you visit the same site through an another tab or through an another instance of Internet explorer without closing the first instance, then the static files are loaded from the cache and thus the pages are loaded fast. When the user closes all the instances of Internet explorer and visit the site again using a fresh instance of Internet Explorer, the pages are downloaded again from the website instead of loading from the browser cache.

          This behavior is due the below setting in Internet Explorer:

Internet Options > Advanced tab > Settings > Security > Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.

         Un-check/ deselect the above setting to make the Internet Explorer always load the static files from the browser cache instead of downloading from the website.

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