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Google Cache: How to View Cached Pages

When Google crawls a web page, it will take a screenshot of that page and index the content for future reference, in case the current page becomes unavailable. The cached page is essentially a back-up of the raw HTML of a page. Additionally, Google will provide the date of the last time the page was indexed on the cache page, i.e. “This page is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Month, Day, Year”.

 

How to view cached pages

  1. In Google’s search box, type the website or page you’re trying to see.
  2. Beside the green URL, click the down arrow.
  3. Select “Cached”.
  4. You are now viewing the cached page.
  5. Alternatively, type the word “cache” in front of the web page’s URL. i.e. “cache:https://examplesite.com“.

1. Use Google Cache if you’re on a web page that is slow or unresponsive.

If you’re trying to find information on a website but it seems the page is down (or just slow), you might try alternating to the Google Cache version. Of course, the page might not look aesthetically identical, but you’ll be able to see the HTML from the last time a Googlebot crawled the page.

2. Use Google Cache to check when a particular page was last visited by a Googlebot.

If you want to know the last time a Googlebot visited a certain page, but don’t have access to server logs, you can now see when the page was last visited by checking out the Cache version of the page. It can be helpful to see the last time the page was successfully fetched by a bot — if you’ve made changes that make the page unresponsive, you might need to know which changes you need to un-do.

3. Check how your website is indexed online.

You might be curious to see whether your website is cached online. If it’s not cached, there are a few potential reasons — first, you’ll want to check there is no content=”noarchive” attribute in the source code of the page. If the page is non-indexable or blocked from crawling, it won’t be cached. Alternatively, if a page is new, it might take a little while for the cache to become available.

If it’s not able to be cached, it’s still visible online. But if you want your site viewers to have the option of viewing it in a cache-version if your site is slow or unresponsive, you might consider digging deeper to figure out what the problem is.

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