Title: Performance: Remove time from CSS/JS enqueues
Last modified: August 24, 2026
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# Performance: Remove time from CSS/JS enqueues
* [Antony Booker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonynz/)
* (@antonynz)
* [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-remove-time-from-css-js-enqueues/)
* Thanks for the work into this theme.
* I noticed the theme is using time() for enqueued CSS, JS and Google Fonts. This
forces the browser to redownload CSS/JS files on each page as the time and version
changes between pages. This can slow down the Largest Contentful Paint while
the browser waits to redownload the CSS files while navigating the site.
To
speed that up and allow CSS and JS files to be served from the browser’s cache
can you please remove time(). The theme version is actually already appended
using “SOLACE_VERSION” so you can remove “?v=’ . time()” completely:
* ```wp-block-code
wp_enqueue_style( 'solace-admin-global-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets-solace/css/admin-global.css?v=' . time(), array(), SOLACE_VERSION );
```
* Would be changed to (“?v=’ . time()” replaced with a single quote):
* ```wp-block-code
wp_enqueue_style( 'solace-admin-global-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets-solace/css/admin-global.css', array(), SOLACE_VERSION );
```
* time can also be removed completely from the google fonts look up as there’s
no reason to use it there:
* ```wp-block-code
wp_enqueue_style('google-fonts-' . $heading, 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=' . $$fontVariable . '&display=swap&v=' . time());
```
* Replaced with:
* ```wp-block-code
wp_enqueue_style('google-fonts-' . $heading, 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=' . $$fontVariable . '&display=swap');
```
* This is used in around 20 template files.
Would it also be possible to stop the
Google Fonts loading when Arial, sans-serif is present? This returns a broken
Google font request which is requested again on each page.
* ```wp-block-code
$cart_title_font_family = get_theme_mod('solace_wc_custom_general_cart_title_font_family', 'Arial, sans-serif'); $cart_title_google_font = str_replace(' ', '+', $cart_title_font_family); if ($cart_title_font_family && !in_array($cart_title_font_family, ['Arial', 'sans-serif', 'Times New Roman', 'Georgia', 'Tahoma', 'Verdana','Arial, sans-serif'])) { wp_enqueue_style( 'solace-cart-title-fonts', "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family={$cart_title_google_font}:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap&v=" . time(), [], null ); }
```
* “Arial, sans-serif” is being set as the default above but isn’t excluded in the
list (only “Arial”). This is also used in a number of Google font lookups in
the solace_scripts function. The excluded Fonts list looks different there and
the code above should probably match that.
For further optimization it could
be coded to prevent the same Google font being retrieved multiple times:
* ```wp-block-code
```
* Could all be one request.
* Hope that helps!
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