# Cross-link map: Purging Vercel CDN Cache (/docs/caching/cdn-cache/purge)

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## Semantically closest pages

- [Manage cache tags for external origins](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/how-to-manage-cache-tags-for-external-origins) — Learn how to use cache tags to optimally serve fresh content on Vercel when content from your external origin changes
- [Data Cache for Next.js](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/runtime-cache/data-cache) — Vercel Data Cache is a specialized cache that stores responses from data fetches in Next.js App Router
- [Cache Status and Reasons](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cache-status) — Understand the cache status and reason shown for each request in Vercel logs, and what causes a response to miss, bypass
- [vercel cache](https://vercel.com/docs/cli/cache) — Learn how to manage cache for your project using the vercel cache CLI command.
- [Invalidate the CDN cache by tag](https://vercel.com/changelog/invalidate-the-cdn-cache-by-tag)

## Prerequisites

- [Caching](https://vercel.com/docs/caching) — Learn how Vercel caches content across multiple layers to deliver fast responses and reduce load on your backend.

## This page links to (15)

- [cacheTag](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/cacheTag) — Learn how to use the cacheTag function to manage cache invalidation in your Next.js application.
- [revalidateTag](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/revalidateTag) — API Reference for the revalidateTag function.
- [Account Management](https://vercel.com/docs/accounts) — Learn how to manage your Vercel account and team members.
- [Cache Status and Reasons](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cache-status) — Understand the cache status and reason shown for each request in Vercel logs, and what causes a response to miss, bypass
- [vercel cache](https://vercel.com/docs/cli/cache) — Learn how to manage cache for your project using the vercel cache CLI command.
- [Accessing Deployments through Generated URLs](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/generated-urls) — When you create a new deployment, Vercel will automatically generate a unique URL which you can use to access that parti
- [Promoting Deployments](https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/promoting-a-deployment) — Learn how to promote deployments to production on Vercel.
- [Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions) — Build API routes, webhooks, and agent request handlers with Vercel Functions, then test and debug them with Vercel CLI.
- [@vercel/functions API Reference \\(Node.js\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/functions-api-reference/vercel-functions-package) — Learn about available APIs when working with Vercel Functions.
- [Image Optimization with Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/image-optimization) — Transform and optimize images to improve page load performance.
- [Incremental Static Regeneration \\(ISR\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/incremental-static-regeneration) — ISR serves cached static pages while regenerating content in the background. Vercel\\\\
- [Limits](https://vercel.com/docs/limits) — Look up account limits, usage summaries, rate limits, and resource constraints for every Vercel plan.
- [Projects overview](https://vercel.com/docs/projects) — A project is where you deploy and operate frontend apps, APIs, backends, containers, and agent workloads on Vercel.
- [Invalidate by tag](https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api/edge-cache/invalidate-by-tag) — POST /v1/edge-cache/invalidate-by-tags — Marks a cache tag as stale, causing cache entries associated with that tag to b
- [Rewrites on Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/rewrites) — Learn how to use rewrites to send users to different URLs without modifying the visible URL.

## Pages that link here (15)

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### From vercel-changelog

- [Vercel CDN now respects Cache-Control headers from external origins by default](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercels-cdn-now-respects-cache-control-headers-from-external-origins-by-default)

### From vercel-kb

- [Using Cloudflare and other reverse proxies with Vercel](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/can-i-use-a-proxy-on-top-of-my-vercel-deployment) — General information about using an external proxy to serve a Vercel Deployment.
- [How to add per-request CSP nonces to CDN-cached HTML on Vercel](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/csp-nonces-with-cdn-cache) — Use Routing Middleware and a self-fetch to add a fresh CSP nonce to cached HTML without rendering the page again on ever
- [A/B testing on ecommerce storefronts without hurting Core Web Vitals](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/ecommerce-ab-testing-core-web-vitals) — Client-side A/B tools can worsen LCP and CLS on the pages you're testing. Run ecommerce A/B tests at the edge with Routi
- [How to reduce ISR revalidation costs](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/how-to-reduce-isr-revalidation-costs) — Reduce ISR costs by analyzing Incremental Static Regeneration \\(ISR\\) behavior to find pages and tags that revalidate to
- [How to reduce Vercel Image Optimization costs](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/reduce-image-optimization-costs-on-vercel) — Learn how to reduce Vercel Image Optimization costs in Next.js by tuning cache TTLs, image sizes, formats, and quality.

### From vercel-docs

- [Caching](https://vercel.com/docs/caching) — Learn how Vercel caches content across multiple layers to deliver fast responses and reduce load on your backend.
- [Cache Status and Reasons](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cache-status) — Understand the cache status and reason shown for each request in Vercel logs, and what causes a response to miss, bypass
- [Vercel CDN Cache](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cdn-cache) — Learn how Vercel's CDN cache stores your content across a global network to reduce latency and origin load.
- [Vercel CDN overview](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn) — Vercel's CDN is a globally distributed platform that handles routing, caching, security, and compression for every deplo
- [vercel cache](https://vercel.com/docs/cli/cache) — Learn how to manage cache for your project using the vercel cache CLI command.
- [@vercel/functions API Reference \\(Node.js\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/functions-api-reference/vercel-functions-package) — Learn about available APIs when working with Vercel Functions.
- [Image Optimization with Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/image-optimization) — Transform and optimize images to improve page load performance.
- [Serving Static Files](https://vercel.com/docs/platforms/multi-tenant-platforms/serving-static-files) — Serve tenant-specific static files like robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and llms.txt dynamically using route handlers.
- [Rewrites on Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/rewrites) — Learn how to use rewrites to send users to different URLs without modifying the visible URL.