Cloudflare Cache Checker

Check if your website is properly cached by Cloudflare and view all cache-related headers

Key Features

Why use our Cloudflare Cache Checker

Real-time Analysis

Get instant feedback on your website's Cloudflare cache status with our real-time analysis tool.

Detailed Headers

View all cache-related HTTP headers to understand how Cloudflare is handling your content.

Cache Status Verification

Verify if your content is being cached properly with the CF-Cache-Status header analysis.

Works with Any Website

Check any website that uses Cloudflare, whether it's your own or a third-party site.

Performance Insights

Gain insights into your website's performance through Cloudflare's caching mechanisms.

Secure and Private

All checks are performed securely, and we don't store any of your website data.

About Cloudflare Cache

Cloudflare Cache is a feature provided by Cloudflare, a content delivery network (CDN) and distributed DNS (Domain Name System) service. It helps improve the performance and security of websites by caching content closer to users and protecting against various online threats.

When enabled, Cloudflare Cache stores copies of static content, such as images, CSS files, and JavaScript files, on its servers distributed across multiple data centers around the world. This allows Cloudflare to deliver cached content to users more quickly, reducing load times and improving website performance.

Additionally, Cloudflare Cache helps reduce the load on origin servers by serving cached content to users, offloading traffic and reducing server load. It also provides various caching settings and optimizations to further enhance website performance and caching behavior.

Why Check Cloudflare Cache?

It's essential to check the status of Cloudflare cache to ensure that your website is delivering content efficiently to users. By monitoring cache status, you can identify if Cloudflare caching is working as expected, helping you optimize website performance and user experience.

If Cloudflare cache is not working properly, it may result in slower load times and increased server load. This can negatively impact user experience and website performance, leading to lower search engine rankings and decreased visitor retention.

Troubleshooting Cloudflare Cache

If Cloudflare cache is not working as expected, there are several troubleshooting steps you can take:

  • Check Cloudflare settings: Ensure that caching is enabled and configured correctly in your Cloudflare dashboard.
  • Clear Cloudflare cache: Try clearing the cache in your Cloudflare dashboard to force Cloudflare to fetch fresh content from your origin server.
  • Check origin server headers: Verify that your origin server is sending appropriate cache-control headers to instruct Cloudflare on how to cache content.
  • Test with different URLs: Test cache status with different URLs to identify if caching issues are specific to certain pages or resources.

Understanding Cloudflare Cache Headers

When you use our Cloudflare Cache Checker, you'll see several important headers in the results:

  • CF-Cache-Status: This header indicates the cache status of your request. Common values include:
    • HIT: The resource was served from Cloudflare's cache.
    • MISS: The resource was not in Cloudflare's cache and was fetched from the origin server.
    • EXPIRED: The resource was in the cache but had expired and was revalidated.
    • BYPASS: The cache was bypassed due to a cache control directive.
    • DYNAMIC: The resource was not eligible for caching.
  • Cache-Control: This header specifies directives for caching mechanisms in both requests and responses.
  • Expires: This header contains the date/time after which the response is considered stale.
  • Age: This header indicates how long the object has been in a proxy cache in seconds.
  • CF-RAY: A unique identifier for the request through Cloudflare.

Why Choose Toolsbear Cache Checker?

Toolsbear Cache Checker provides a simple and efficient way to check the status of Cloudflare cache for any website. With its user-friendly interface and real-time response, you can quickly determine if Cloudflare caching is enabled and functioning correctly.

Unlike other cache checker tools, Toolsbear Cache Checker offers comprehensive information about Cloudflare cache status and HTTP response headers, allowing for detailed analysis and troubleshooting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Cloudflare caching

The Cloudflare Cache Checker tool allows you to verify whether a webpage is properly cached by Cloudflare's CDN. It checks the CF-Cache-Status header and other cache-related headers to determine if your content is being cached, which is crucial for optimizing website performance and reducing server load. This tool helps webmasters ensure their Cloudflare caching settings are working correctly.

When you see "CF-Cache-Status: HIT" in the response headers, it means that Cloudflare successfully served the content from its cache without needing to fetch it from your origin server. This is ideal for performance as it reduces load times for your visitors and decreases the load on your origin server. A high percentage of cache HITs indicates that your Cloudflare caching configuration is working effectively.

"CF-Cache-Status: MISS" indicates that the requested content was not found in Cloudflare's cache and had to be fetched from your origin server. This typically happens when content is requested for the first time or after it has expired from the cache. Frequent MISS statuses might suggest that your cache settings need optimization, such as increasing the cache TTL (Time To Live) or reviewing your Cache-Control headers.

When you see "CF-Cache-Status: BYPASS" in the response headers, it means that caching was deliberately skipped for this request. This can happen for several reasons: the page uses cookies that prevent caching, your Cloudflare Page Rules are set to bypass cache for this URL, or the origin server sent headers instructing Cloudflare not to cache the content (like Cache-Control: no-cache). If you're seeing BYPASS when you don't expect to, you should review your caching configuration.

To improve Cloudflare cache performance:

  1. Set appropriate Cache-Control headers on your origin server to control how long content should be cached
  2. Use Cloudflare Page Rules to override cache settings for specific URLs
  3. Enable Cloudflare's cache everything option for static sites
  4. Use Cloudflare Workers to customize caching behavior for dynamic content
  5. Regularly check cache hit rates using our Cache Checker tool to identify optimization opportunities
  6. Consider using Enterprise-level features like Cache Reserve for even better performance

There are several common reasons why content might not be cached by Cloudflare:

  • Your origin server is sending Cache-Control: private, no-store, or no-cache headers
  • The content is dynamic or personalized (containing user-specific information)
  • Your Cloudflare settings are set to Development Mode or Cache Level: Bypass
  • The request includes cookies that prevent caching
  • The URL contains query parameters that Cloudflare doesn't cache by default
  • Your content is accessed via HTTP POST requests instead of GET requests

Use our Cloudflare Cache Checker tool to analyze the specific headers your server is sending and identify the issue.

You can purge the Cloudflare cache in several ways:

  1. From the Cloudflare Dashboard: Go to the Caching tab and click on "Purge Cache" to remove specific URLs or purge everything
  2. Using the Cloudflare API: Send a POST request to the purge_cache endpoint
  3. Through a CMS plugin: Many content management systems have Cloudflare integration plugins that can automatically purge relevant cache when content is updated

After purging, you can use our Cache Checker tool to verify that your content is no longer being served from cache (it should show MISS or EXPIRED for the first request after purging).

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