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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:08:12+00:00

We have two files in header of every web page – a ccs and

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We have two files in header of every web page – a ccs and a javascript file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/scripts.js?1234"></script>
<link href="styles.css?2345" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Every time we modify a css/javascript file we increase the ?1234 parameter in the end of filename. Recently a member of the team proposed to replace this manual updating (that we have sometimes forgot to do) with PHP code that checks the file modification time itself:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/scripts.js?<?php echo filemtime('/js/scripts.js');?>"/>
<link href="styles.css?<?php echo filemtime('styles.css');?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The question is that how much slower (if at all) it makes the requests? Should we do it? We run our system in Linux server on Amazon EC2.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Filetime is slow but using it 2 times in a webpage maybe ok. But I would cache the result and only update it sometime (with a conjob for example).

    Well if you are checking 1000 files, filemtime will actually DOUBLE
    the amount of time used if just reading the file with
    file_get_contents!

    -> http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/filemtime-the-performance-killer/

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