4.7 Define the frequency of data refreshes
Hosting, Infrastructure, and Systems
Decide when to refresh data based on a balance of user and sustainability considerations.
Criteria
- Refresh frequency: Machine-testable
Define the revalidation and refresh frequency for the cache, local data, and page content based on user needs, balancing performance, data accuracy, and resource efficiency.- A Review on Green Caching Strategies for Next Generation Communication Networks
- A Web Caching Primer
- Everything About WordPress Cache
- Five Data-Loading Patterns To Boost Web Performance
- GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 4.9 – UX and UI (Server Requests)
- GPF – General Policy Framework (PDF) – 7.1 – Back-End (Reusability Caching)
- How Caching Helps In Improving Performance Of Application
- How to Reduce the HTTP/S Requests Your WordPress website Makes
Benefits
- Conversion
Eliminating unnecessary data refreshes delivers a better user experience that makes return visits more likely. - Economic
Caching or simply not updating data unnecessarily can potentially reduce costs by reducing the amount of data transmitted over a network. - Environment
Minimizing data refreshes reduces server and network usage, which brings down power consumption and carbon emissions in turn. - Social Equity
Reducing live data refresh rates makes it easier for people with limited or slow network access to access and use website content.
GRI
- Materials: Medium
- Energy: Medium
- Water: Medium
- Emissions: Medium