Netlify deploy time > 25 minutes

[dhoulker]

Hi! We have a site with over 6k pages. We’ve got our build time in around 2 mins, but the site takes over 25 minutes to deploy.

Is this normal for a site with this many pages?

I’ve tried 3 builds, and looking through the logs but can’t see what the cause might be.

https://static-first-playground.netlify.com/

Thanks

Dave

[fool]

Hey Dave,

Please take a look at this article for insights on what we need to upload and how you can optimize it:

[Support Guide] Making the most of Netlify's CDN cache

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Our CDN derives much of its efficiency from files whose checksums don’t change between deploys. For instance, in a blog, you usually write or update one article in one file, while the rest of the content remains unchanged. In this typical use case, we don’t need to re-upload and re-process these files, since our CDN already has them stored - no checksums have changed except the one file. This also means that your visitors’ browsers don’t need to …

In short, 25 minutes on a deploy of 10k files is usual IF you change many/most/all files, which we suggest you do not do, and that article shows how to figure out what’s changing in case you don’t intend to