Public library /dist/core-common.js is very large!

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I’m running Nextcloud for more than a year now on my own server. But i noticed a very high bandwidth usage lately. Even when no shares were open. When checking the apache_access.log with the goaccess tool, the report shows that /dist/core-common.js?v=9b57c404-0 had transferred 283.4 MB in 48 hours (22 requests to this file); core-common.js is 13.5 MB

Why is this publicly accessible js library so big? This is not normal right?
This is creating very high bandwidth demands. How to reduce file size or bandwidth?

Nextcloud version: 25.0.6
Operating system and version: Ubuntu 22.04
Apache or nginx version: Apache 2.4.25
PHP version: 8.0

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Yes that file size is normal. It’s a bundle of a bunch of core client side Nextcloud code. It’s necessary to function.

Browsers will request it periodically.

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Thank you for the reply! Good to know that the file size is normal.

But thinking about it: this file should better be only requested when users are logged in!
Visitors should not just request these kinds of libraries. That would be better for managing a low bandwidth profile.

(…and maybe some tiny library if needed for the login screen)

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That’s an interesting idea.

Might be worth making the suggestion here as a Feature Request in a new Issue:

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I took your suggestion and did an enhancement request: Enhancement for public accessible core-common.js · Issue #38502 · nextcloud/server · GitHub

When you agree, give this issue a thumbs up :slight_smile: