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Asset Cache Policy Audit

Finds the two classic caching mistakes on one page: immutable or month-long caching on files whose URL never changes, and near-zero caching on files that carry a content hash, plus any text asset served without compression.

Context and background

Read the story behind this tool: Why Asset Cache Policy Audit exists.

Related: Compression Codec Audit / Edge Cache Effectiveness Probe / Font Loading Strategy

The audit fetches the page, picks up to 12 same-origin CSS, JavaScript, font and image files from its HTML, sends a HEAD request to each, and reads Cache-Control, ETag, Last-Modified, Content-Encoding and Vary. Files on other hosts are skipped.