8 Ways to Improve Web Browser Performance on Windows

Chris Hoffman, IDG

Improve your web browsing experience on Windows #5: Clear your browser cache (or stop I clean it)

Ah, browser cache. As you browse, your web browser remembers the pages you visit and your input in history, it stores images and other bits of downloaded pages in a cache, and it stores cookies with information from websites—such as your status login.

Many people clear this browser cache frequently. If your browser is slow, try clearing your browsing data. In fact, Microsoft official Edge Browser Documentation says, “Clearing your browser data regularly will improve your browser’s performance” – and who am I to argue with Microsoft? Surely he understands how his own browser works.

Cleaning up this data is worth it. But on the contrary, if you clear browsing data too much regularly, you might want to stop doing this. The browser cache is designed to speed things up: your browser can select images and other parts of web pages from its cache rather than reloading them, which reduces loading time when you revisit the page.