For our server-side rendered app, we want to avoid the overhead of fetching the Prismic API ref for every single requests. The ~200-300ms it takes to load the master ref are critical. For this, we use a stale-while-revalidate mechanism to ensure most users never have to pay the cost of loading the …

I feel I did answer his question in the post I linked: Prismic data caching We don’t recommend using a caching system as this can cause issues when the master ref is changed on every document update, this can cause websites to break. Make sure you are using your CDN endpoint to offer your websi…

Hi Paul, Welcome to the community! We don't recommend caching at all: [image] Prismic data caching Developing with Prismic Hey Dmitry, Yes, we don’t recommend using a caching system as this can cause issues when the master ref is changed on every document update, this …

Thanks for you answer. @Phil . I do understand that not caching at all is the simplest solution. We just realised that in many cases, fetching the Prismic ref takes more time (up to 300ms) than requesting an entire Prismic document, which takes around 50ms when it is cached by your CDN :rocket:. Tha…

Hi again Paul, So I think the team might be working on providing a faster Prismic Ref response this would hopefully be the solution you're looking for. I'm not 100% what the status of this is, but if you provide me with your repo URL I can try and get the BETA activated on your repo. Thanks.

Why can't you answer his question? It sounds reasonable to do that paul2 is saying, and cache the ref - whats the issue with that?

Hello Phil, First of all, thanks for such a cool product to Prismic team. Any updates on this improvement? If there is a chance to get the BETA activated on my repo, I would be very grateful. Because now the response time has quite big impact on my client's website load time, which is important to…

Hi @olehkhalin , I'm really happy to hear you're enjoying the product. The API is now replicated at the closest location for our users by default, so no need to activate this. Are you sure you are using the CDN endpoint? So https://example.cdn.prismic.io/api/v2 not https://example.prismic.io/api/v2 …

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Phil (Phil Snow) June 28, 2021, 10:29am 2

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the community!

We don't recommend caching at all:

Thanks.

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