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Say you want to grab dynamic data from the web, analyze it, and pass it on to your audience. Or you want to augment your blog with links and descriptions of stories from your favorite news sources and blogs. Creating this dynamically on each request is bad web citizenship, because it means that, as your audience grows, so does the server load on your source servers Plus, it'll mean long load times on your site, and you won't be able to do as much analysis and data crawling as you could if you aggregated it all on your server.