Question

I have a PHP Web application with several results per item category. Hence, I implemented a pagination with jQuery to minimize the data loaded when loading page i-th from page j-th (but this aspect is not important at all).

The question is very simple: should I cache the next results by using such an hidden call (e.g. with an Ajax call) to my Web server?
The benefits seems to be clear (faster response on user click). Are there such drawbacks?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Answer 1

This is a different approach. You may try the following steps;

1. Do an AJAX request (for first time) to call the second page when page loads (in document ready function).
2. Store the return data in a variable.
3. On second request, clear the HTML and append the field with AJAX data.
4. All next clicks should do an AJAX request and save the result in a variable.
5. The same must be done for prev clicks also.

Hope this helps.