diff --git a/.changeset/young-games-talk.md b/.changeset/young-games-talk.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..096dc02060
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/young-games-talk.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"gitbook": patch
+"gitbook-v2": patch
+---
+
+Revert investigation work around URL caches.
diff --git a/packages/gitbook-v2/src/lib/context.ts b/packages/gitbook-v2/src/lib/context.ts
index c85434c91f..22e25a5990 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook-v2/src/lib/context.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook-v2/src/lib/context.ts
@@ -220,8 +220,6 @@ export async function fetchSiteContextByIds(
 ): Promise<GitBookSiteContext> {
     const { dataFetcher } = baseContext;
 
-    const DEBUG = ids.site === 'site_cu2ih';
-
     const [{ site: orgSite, structure: siteStructure, customizations, scripts }, spaceContext] =
         await Promise.all([
             throwIfDataError(
@@ -234,22 +232,6 @@ export async function fetchSiteContextByIds(
             fetchSpaceContextByIds(baseContext, ids),
         ]);
 
-    DEBUG && console.log('ids', JSON.stringify(ids));
-    DEBUG &&
-        console.log(
-            'siteStructure',
-            siteStructure
-                ? JSON.stringify({
-                      type: siteStructure.type,
-                      structure: siteStructure.structure.map((s) => {
-                          // @ts-ignore
-                          const { siteSpaces, urls, ...rest } = s;
-                          return rest;
-                      }),
-                  })
-                : 'null'
-        );
-
     // override the title with the customization title
     // TODO: remove this hack once we have a proper way to handle site customizations
     const site = {
diff --git a/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts b/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
index 0e599c4486..30f7b44e6a 100644
--- a/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
+++ b/packages/gitbook/src/middleware.ts
@@ -674,9 +674,6 @@ async function lookupSiteByAPI(
             }
         );
 
-        alternative.url.includes('minas-tirith') &&
-            console.log(`resolved ${alternative.url} -> ${JSON.stringify(data)}`);
-
         if ('error' in data) {
             if (alternative.primary) {
                 // We only return an error for the primary alternative (full URL),