Javascript cache busting image source
Question
If I have only one image source and I do this:
var url = 'http://path/to/some/image.jpg'
for(var i=0; i < 100; i++){
var imgsrc = url + "?rand=" + (Math.random() * 99999999);
$('<img src="+imgsrc+" />').appendTo(...);
}
Is this absolutely the same strain on browser memory like loading 100 completely different images or there is something else?
I can see that in console that browser loads every image, but I need to be sure because I have a test application which loads lots if images, and I need to replicate test environment without setting source to each new image individually.
2 answers
solution1
1 2017-02-04 09:06:49
So I set out to test this, and it seems that the browser will think that images served from different URLs are different images and will not de-duplicate them, caching or network request wise, even if only the query-string changes.
Test process
So first the setup, a minimal express server:
testServer/
index.js
index.html
assets/
static-image.jpg
index.js :
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile('index.html', { root: __dirname })
})
app.get('/img', (req, res) => {
const tag = req.query.rand
res.sendFile('assets/static-img.jpg', { root: __dirname })
})
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 8080)
index.html :
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="images">
</div>
<script>
const url = '/img'
const container = document.getElementById('images')
for (let i=0; i < 100; i++) {
const imgSrc = `${url}?rand=${Math.random() * 99999999}`
const img = new Image(200, 200)
img.src = imgSrc
container.appendChild(img)
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Now let's start the app with node index.js and load localhost:8080 in our browser:
The image has been correctly loaded on every instance, let's check the log of received HTTP headers to see if the image has been downloaded every time:
http://localhost:8080/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:39:55 GMT
Etag: W/"1da-15a08479c08"
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 474
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:11 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://localhost:8080/img?rand=9601808.592702283
GET /img?rand=9601808.592702283 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:15 GMT
Etag: W/"85c0-3e7fffffc18"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 34240
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:12 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://localhost:8080/img?rand=46816320.75854376
GET /img?rand=46816320.75854376 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:15 GMT
Etag: W/"85c0-3e7fffffc18"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 34240
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:12 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://localhost:8080/img?rand=70878177.06809631
GET /img?rand=70878177.06809631 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:15 GMT
Etag: W/"85c0-3e7fffffc18"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 34240
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:12 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://localhost:8080/img?rand=51281025.02663941
GET /img?rand=51281025.02663941 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:15 GMT
Etag: W/"85c0-3e7fffffc18"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 34240
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:12 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
http://localhost:8080/img?rand=72492129.69256185
GET /img?rand=72492129.69256185 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8080/
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:15 GMT
Etag: W/"85c0-3e7fffffc18"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 34240
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 08:45:12 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
----------------------------------------------------------
[...]
And now let's check if the cache contains 100 separate instance of the image:
about:cache :
To make certain that the browser doesn't combine the identical images on disk, I checked the size of the browser's cache before and after:
# Before loading test page
~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/u3lc193j.default/cache2 $ du -d0
335376 .
# After loading test page
~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/u3lc193j.default/cache2 $ du -d0
355724 .
# That's a way bigger difference than the size of the image
~/cacheTest/imageCache/assets/ $ du static-img.jpg
1528
So we have the answer: loading the same image with different query strings will indeed fill up the image cache.
This was tested on Firefox 52 and Chrome 55.
solution2
0 2017-02-04 09:41:20
var url = 'http://path/to/some/image.jpg';
for( var i = 0; i < 100; i++){
var imgsrc = url + "?rand=" + (Math.random() * 99999999);
var img = new Image();
$('<img src="+imgsrc+" />').appendTo(...);
}
Operator: x += y
Meaning: x = x + y
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