How to Clear the Browser/Web Page’s Cache

To clear the browser cache for a specific page using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F5 (or equivalent for your operating system and browser), follow these steps:

• Navigate to the desired webpage: Open your web browser and go to the page you want to hard refresh and clear the cache for.
• Execute the hard refresh command:
  • Windows (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera): Hold down the Ctrl key and press the F5 key. Alternatively, Ctrl + Shift + R often works as well. 
  • macOS (Chrome, Firefox): Hold down Command (⌘) and Shift and press R.
  • macOS (Safari): Hold down Command (⌘) and Option (⌥) and press E. Alternatively, hold down Shift and click the “Reload” button in the toolbar.

This action forces the browser to bypass its local cache and download fresh copies of all resources (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc.) for that particular page from the server. This is commonly referred to as a “hard refresh” or “force refresh.”