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A '''Web cache''' (or '''HTTP cache''') is a system for optimizing the World Wide Web. It is implemented both client-side and server-side. The caching of multimedia and other files can result in less overall delay when [[web browser|browsing]] the Web.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fountis |first=Yorgos |date=4 May 2017 |title=How does the browser cache work? |url=https://pressidium.com/blog/2017/browser-cache-work/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Messaoud |first1=S. |last2=Youssef |first2=H. |date=2009 |title=An analytical model for the performance evaluation of stack-based Web cache replacement algorithms |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dac.1036 |journal=International Journal of Communication Systems |language=en |volume=23 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.1002/dac.1036|s2cid=46507769 }}</ref>
 
[[Distributed computing|Distributed web applications]] should consider [[Distributed cache|distributed caching]].
 
==Parts of the system==