Why does it take a long time to apply changes to css on a Joomla site?

Question

CMS

Good afternoon!
There is a site on Joomla, where changes in css and js files are applied for a long time. Everything is fine with php and html files, but in css/js you have to wait several hours for the changes made. Caching is disabled, cache folder is empty. Is the cache enabled somewhere else? What could be the problem?

Answer 1

Because the browser does not want to download it again, it thinks that nothing has changed there. Ctrl-F5 seems to do a full page refresh.

Answer 2

Is the cache enabled somewhere else? What could be the problem?

In the web server settings? Are there Expires, E-tag, Last-modified, etc. headers?

Answer 3

1. Disable caching for debugging in Joomla settings!
2. Disable caching in template settings (if any)

Answer 4

You can try clearing the cache in your browser. F5 for some reason does not always give the expected result.