After building up a lot of cache, often done by spending large amounts of time online accessing different webpages, this can affect the performance of your computer or device. Cache takes up storage capacity, so if you are low on space then clearing your cache may help to free up the space.

In web development, one of the key advantages of clearing cache is that it removes previous information that a browser has about a webpage. This is useful when accessing a website that is in development, and when changes are made they aren’t always obvious, even after refreshing the page. This is because your browser is loading old data from the cache. By clearing the cache your browser is forced to reload and access new webpage data which ensures that you are looking at the most up-to-date version of the website.