Should I use Bootstrap from CDN or make a copy on my server?

Question

What\'s the best practice of using Twitter Bootstrap, refer to it from CDN or make a local copy on my server?

Since Bootstrap keeps evolving, I am afraid if I refer

Answer 1

Depends on the specific site.

Do you have many users? Do you care about bandwidth usage? Is performance an issue (CDN's can speed up the responses) ?

You can link to a specific version:

//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css

Or

//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css

That way you don't have to worry about library updates, its a better practice to keep updated.

I am not sure what are the exact statistics about developers choice, but you can have a look here and see Billions of requests are sent to Bootstrap CDN, which means it is robust and safe to use.