Are static files counted in Service Workers requests?

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If I’m using edge caching for HTML pages for a WP site, will static files pass-through service workers and are counted as requests?

The route that I have to put will be like my-site.com/*

Otherwise, the free plan of Service Workers allows 100,000 requests per day. If a website has 100 requests in a page (including HTML, CSS, JS, Images etc), that would make only 1k page views a day.

Even if I upgrade to the “Unlimited” plan, that would make only 3 times that of the free plan (~3k page views a day, assuming 100 requests in a page).

If static files are counted, any way to exclude them?

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Yes, they are counted. You can create a disabled route, that will exclude it from running the worker.

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ok, Thanks for the quick response.

So if the images are inside “wp-uploads” folder, I just have to create a route like “my-site.com/wp-uploads/*” and set “None” for the worker. Right?

Also, how to set the priority for routes? Basically now I’ve two routes that might create conflicts, like “my-site.com/" and "my-site.com/wp-uploads/”

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Exactly. The most specific route will take precedence.

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Ok. Got it. One more doubt, how does worker routes aligns with page rules?

For example I’ve assigned a worker to “example.com/" and I’ve set “Cache Everything” using Page Rules for the sample route, "example.com/”. Which one will work in this case (and run first)? Or ‘Page Rule’ are completely ignored?

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Page rules (redirects, for example) run before Workers, but the cache is after the worker. A Worker will always run when a request is received, regardless of Page Rules and cache settings.

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Awesome. Thanks a lot

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