Check whether network response is coming from server or Chrome cache

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Vishwajeet picture Vishwajeet · Oct 30, 2012 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

In Google Chrome, how you can check which files are served from the browser cache, and which comes from the server?

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James picture James · Oct 31, 2012

In Chrome Developer Tools switch to the Network tab and on the Size column it will either give you the size of the downloaded content or say (from disk/memory cache).

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