How to Check for an ETag on Your Website (If It Exists)
Google has updated its crawler documentation to include detailed information about caching, providing valuable insights for optimizing Google’s crawler. SEOs and publishers can enhance crawling efficiency and better use server resources by adhering to the updated guidelines for implementing effective HTTP caching headers. Read the complete article by SEJ here: Googles Updated Crawler Guidance Recommends Etag How to Determine If Your Website Uses ETags Open DevTools by pressing Control+Shift+I (Windows) or Command+Option+I (Mac). Navigate to the Network tab. Initially, the Network panel will be empty. Reload the page to log network activity. Each row in the panel represents a resource, typically the top resource being the main HTML document. Click on a resource, then select the Headers tab to view the HTTP headers. Look for the ETag under the "Response Headers" section.