Objects served from cache

This section assumes that the object is cacheable. For non-cacheable objects, the cacheable and cache hit parameters return 0.

In general, if an edge server doesn't got forward with the request and serves a 2xx response, it's safe to assume that the object was served entirely from the cache. When partial object caching is enabled for the object, you can consider the download a cache hit only if an edge server doesn’t go forward to fetch any of the fragments needed to satisfy the request.

If the edge server goes forward to fetch the object, and the forward server returns a 304 status code (not modified), the edge server still serves the object from cache. You can consider the download a cache hit. However, if the forward server returns a 20x status code, the edge server evicts the content in cache and replaces it with the updated object. You can consider the download a cache miss. Note that the updates on the If-Modified-Since header are considered a cache hit as the content body is served from cache.

When a POC master entry needs to be checked, the edge server forwards a 0-0 range request to the origin. It checks again the object size based on the Content-Length value included in the Content-Range header. If the check fails, the edge server fetches the updated object. This is a cache miss.

When a POC fragment needs to be checked, the edge server forwards a one-byte range request that starts from the fragment's offset. It checks again the fragments size based on the Content-Length value included in the Content-Range header. If the check fails, the edge server fetches the complete fragment. This is a cache miss.

If all POC check requests are successful, the download is a cache hit even though the edge server forwarded the check requests.

Bytes served from cache

This section assumes that the object is cacheable. For non-cacheable objects, the cacheable and cache hit parameters return 0. Also, the bytes_from_cache value from the cache stats returns 0.

For objects without partial object (POC) caching enabled, either none or the entire object comes from cache. However, for POC-enabled objects, some fragments may already be in cache, and the edge server needs to go forward to fetch the rest of the needed fragments. At the end of the download, the cache stats parameter returns the number of cached fragments multiplied by the requested fragment size in its bytes_from_cache value and the total number of fragments multiplied by the requested fragment size in its total_bytes_to_client value.

For example, if two fragments are in cache for an object split into 10 fragments, each consisting of 2000 bytes, the cache stats parameters returns 4000/20000.