Website Caching

Your internet browser will often keep a local cache of the websites you visit. So as to speed up access next time you visit the website. Find out why you sometimes see an older version of your website and how to resolve this by clearing out your browsers cache.

Clearing your cache varies from browser to browser. Here are the steps for some of the more common browsers:

Internet Explorer 7

1. On the main Internet Explorer menu select ‘Tools’.
2. Choose ‘Internet Options’.
3. Select the ‘General’ tab.
4. The second section within this tab is ‘Browsing history’.
5. Select ‘Delete’.
6. The first item on the page is ‘Temporary Internet Files’.
7. Select this and ‘Delete’ files.
8. On the page select ‘Close’, and then ‘OK’.

Internet Explorer 8

1. Within the ‘Safety menu’ item, select ‘Delete Browsing History’.
2. Tick ‘Temporary Internet files’ and ‘History’, then ‘Delete’.

Firefox 3 (Windows)

1. On the main Safari menu select ‘Tools’
2. Second from the bottom is ‘Clear Private Data’.
3. Click on this and then tick ‘Cache’.
4. Select ‘Clear Private Data’.

Firefox 3 (Mac OS X)

1. In the main Safari menu select ‘Tools’.
2. Tick ‘Clear Private Data’ and ‘Cache’.
3. Ensure ‘Cache’ is checked.
4. Select ‘Clear Private Data’.

Safari

1. The second item on the Safari menu is ‘Edit’.
2. Select this and then ‘Empty Cache’.
3. A pop up will ask ‘are sure you want to empty the cache’
4. Select ‘Empty’ to confirm.

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