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Vercel Reuses Static Assets Across Deployments for Faster, Cheaper Sites

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Vercel ·

Vercel now reuses immutable static files across deployments, reducing CDN requests by 17% and bytes transferred by 24% for Next.js projects. Deployments complete up to 30% faster, and Time to First Byte improves by over 60% for frequently deployed sites. The optimization is zero-config for supported frameworks like Next.js 16.3, with more frameworks coming soon.

Meridian48 take
A smart infrastructure upgrade that delivers real performance gains for developers, though the impact depends on framework adoption beyond Next.js.
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