Why should I use Cache Killer to delete my cache?

First, let's discuss who should not delete their cache. Cache is beneficial for those who visit only a handful of sites each day when the sites visited do not change very often. For example, Bill is an undergraduate student who gets on the web each day to check two of his professors' course pages to see if there are any new announcements and to check several of the University's main pages to see if there is any news. The pages generally change only about once a week. Some of these pages have a lot of graphics and it takes several minutes to load them on Bill's relatively slow 14.4 mbps modem.

In this situation, cache is very beneficial to Bill. It will allow the pages to load very quickly when no changes have been made. He should not delete his cache unless (1) his cache becomes corrupted and is causing browser instability, or (2) he is viewing private information that he does not want others to see.

Unfortunately, most of us are not like Bill. The typical user:

• Views content that is likely to change within the next hour, much less the next day.
• Views hundreds of pages each day, most of which are different from those viewed the previous day.