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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:35:58+00:00

I know I can do a simple auto-refresh on some of my webpages (for

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I know I can do a simple auto-refresh on some of my webpages (for example, the Home page of my site) by inserting a meta tag like

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

But after doing this I’m getting really long page duration and session duration. This is not realistic, and I think that the refresh does not “reset” the page duration counter, which I think should happen.

I guess this could be done with a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5 in Windows, Option+R in MacOSX), but I don’t know if it is possible to force the refresh to be a hard refresh… or if this kind of refresh would serve to my purpose.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was searching for an answer to this, and it’s all in the headers apparently.

    You need to send a no-cache header, in php this would be:

    header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past

    ..and then just refresh as normal (javascript or meta).

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