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maxboeck / eleventastic

An Eleventy Starter Kit
https://eleventastic.netlify.app
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Build timestamp in base.njk causes longer build and deploy times on Netlify #3

Closed freshyill closed 4 years ago

freshyill commented 4 years ago

I recently incorporated much of Eleventastic into an under-the-hood update of my own Eleventy site, and I noticed that build times increased quite a bit. It looks like the build time included in base.njk leads to much longer build and deploy times on Netlify since this triggers a change in every page that relies on base.njk.

According to this Netlify support doc, this invalidates every page in their CDN cache. I noticed an increase from 2–3 minute builds before Elventastic to 4–5 minute builds with it. Removing this from base.njk dropped build times back down to 2–3 minutes.

I like the idea of being able to check build times so my solution was to create a build.njk page that generates out a single page with the same information. Would you consider making a similar change to the project?

maxboeck commented 4 years ago

oh wow, I was unaware of that. that is indeed quite a difference at scale! I've taken your advice and moved the build timestamp to a standalone build.txt info file. Excluded it from sitemaps and crawling.

thanks for the hint! 🙌