Measuring visitor HTTP cache hit ratio for external CDN resources
My site uses several common CDN hosted resources, like bootstrap.css , jquery.js and fontawesome.css . Is it possible to get information, probably with JavaScript, do my site visitors have warm caches for these resources in their web browsers? While not an answer, some interesting insight I found when working on this problem with Chrome : Fetching the resource from CDN is a deferred call, while fetching an item from the cache seems in fact to be a blocking call, despite being quite fast. Firefox didn't seem to this exhibit behavior consistently (and I didn't even bother with IE). To test this