# Clear-Site-Data header — Clearing speculations

> If this header is delivered with the response at all {{domxref("Speculation Rules API", "speculated navigations","", "nocode")}} prerenders on the same domain and any subdomains (such as will be cleared.

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- Updated: `2026-08-16T09:32:14.513592+00:00`
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## Knowledge

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If this header is delivered with the response at all {{domxref("Speculation Rules API", "speculated navigations","", "nocode")}} prerenders on the same domain and any subdomains (such as will be cleared.

To clear both prefetch and prerender speculations, both prefetchCache and prerenderCache must be sent

There are cases where clearing one or the other, or both, is appropriate.

For example, a client-side rendered application that pulls in data from JavaScript might use prerenderCache on state change to discard the prerendered pages, but keep the prefetched HTML to use when the page is rendered (or prerendered again).

On the other hand, if the prefetched HTML document contains stale data but the corresponding prerendered page is set up to refresh the data when it is displayed, you may not need to use prerenderCache but you probably will want to use the prefetchCache directive: so that the stale HTML isn't used in a future prerender.

Finally, if the prefetched HTML document contains stale data, and also does not refresh stale content on prerendered pages, then specifying both prefetchCache and prerenderCache is most appropriate.

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