Should I make a lot of requests to the API?

Question

API

Hello, there is a site on nodeJs, which has a page on which information will be pulled from 8-15 other sites via API.
Is it worth it to do so? Or how else can it be organized?
All requests can be made asynchronously.

Answer 1

organize caching of API responses on your server. think about how often you need up-to-date data from the API and update the cache as needed. if your site has many users, and API requests do not depend on a specific user of the site - caching responses will greatly reduce the number of repeated requests.