New FAQ: How do I force my website visitors browsers to download the recently updated piwik.js?
#9,619 opened on 2016年1月22日
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説明
Since sometimes changes in piwik's js is nessary (fixes and optimizations) one should made it possible to bring these changes to every visitor especially also to returning visitors as soon as possible (asap = instantly on availibility). At this time caching of visitor's browser slows usage of new version down e.g. https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/9607#issuecomment-173673850
The problem is that this file is often chached by the browser and reused for some time.
One solution can be an intelligent versioning of this file / the file hirachie construct around. Everytime there is a change, a recognizable new version is provided and with this loaded and used by the browser.
Some general thoughts about this can be found here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8224736/javascript-versioning-to-avoid-caching-difference-in-these-practices