How to View the Cached Page of any URL or Website

The internet is evolving each passing day. To add to the complexity, hundreds of blog posts are published on each day. As a user, you might want to have an access to all the necessary information/blog post that you visit on the daily page.

Sadly, that’s not the case every time. Sometimes, the website is not available; making it hard for you to have an instant access.

For the sole reason, website caching is maintained. Google and other 3rd party services take active participation in creating an active archive of each page that is published until now.

It is an active process and the website owners don’t have to do anything to make it work. Also, there is no cost associated with the service.

The two services that we are mainly going to talk about are Google’s cache service and the Wayback machine.

How the Caching Work?

Google and other 3rd party services take regular web pages snapshot and store them into their server. Sometimes, when there are too many user requests and it is not a viable option to deliver the processed web page.

In this scenario, it is a good idea to deliver a cached version of the webpage. It saves both the server processing, saving precious data and improving the user experience.

Using Google’s Cache Service

Using Google’s Cache service is very easy. All you need to do is type a pre-text of “cache” in front of the website URL.

For example, you may want to look at the cache of wikipedia.com. You can do it by just entering the following URL in the web browser.

cache:wikipedia.com

Once you enter the above URL, you will get the cached version of the wikipedia.com

The trick works with the popular web browser such as Google, Firefox, Opera, etc.

Using Google Search Results

There is yet another way to look for cached pages using Google search.

All you need to do is go to the Google Search page. It can be “www.google.com” or any other local google search the web page.

Once there, type the query in the search box and press “Google Search”.

Now, below the URL, you will see a drop down button. Press the button to access the cached option.

Press the cached button to get hold of the cached version of the website.

Using Wayback Machine

Wayback machine is a popular internet cache service. It has cached more than 435 billion web pages until now.

To use Wayback Machine, go to http://archive.org/web/ and type the URL you are looking for.

Once, pressed, it will showcase a calendar and highlighted dates on which the snapshot of the URL are stored.

Press on the date to get the cached web page.

Using CachedPages.com

Cachedpages.com is a portal for easy accessing the cached web pages. If you find yourself frequently looking for the cached web pages, this is the website to bookmark.

The Google cache and archive.org options work fine. The coral cache doesn’t work as intended(at the time of testing).

You might want to also use the Live version option to get the latest live version of the website/webpage.

Over To You

The internet started two and a half decade ago and it has flourished into a complex network of big data and nodes. To utilize it efficiently, Google has provided us search engine.

Also, information is valuable. Every single piece of information should be preserved for the greater good. The Google cache service and the Wayback machine surely helps us to achieve the desired result.

For web page admins and owners, these cache process is a blessing. There are many scenarios where they can easily retrieve information in case of a data loss or hacking activity.

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