I think there's a semantic hangup here, what you're describing is accurate, but it probably "better" explained (in the case of something like the popular wordp

I think there's a semantic hangup here, what you're describing is accurate, but it probably "better" explained (in the case of something like the popular wordpress caching plugins) as "compiling" your content to flat HTML which is saved on disk. The web server/CDN can then "cache" that file.