Request Collapsing

Request collapsing is designed to optimize the delivery of content, improve overall performance and reduce load on the origin server.

Here’s how the process works:

Each edge server will collect and analyze requests for uncached content received on one of our caching servers within a brief timeframe to identify duplicate requests. A single request is then sent upstream, eliminating multiple identical requests to the origin server. This means that the origin server only has a single outbound reply with the content to our edge server, which will cache the content and deliver it from cache to all pending & subsequent requests.