diff --git a/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRoutePaths.ts b/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRoutePaths.ts
index 5aad7623c8..396207b2d1 100644
--- a/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRoutePaths.ts
+++ b/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRoutePaths.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,31 @@ export type NextAppRoutePath =
   | { readonly kind: "known"; readonly path: string }
   | { readonly kind: "unknown"; readonly reason: string };
 
+/**
+ * Test /(?:^|\/)app\/(?:[\s\S]*\/)?page(?:\.[cm]?[jt]sx?|-[^/?#]+\.js|)(?:[?#].*)?$/u
+ * in linear time; every source literal reaches this test. The first `app/`
+ * segment admits every later page segment, and `.` cannot cross a line
+ * terminator, so a query or fragment after the page filename starts on the
+ * last line. Retrying from each `app/` or `?` instead is quadratic.
+ */
+const isPageShapedPath = (value: string): boolean => {
+  const app = /(?:^|\/)app\//u.exec(value);
+  if (app === null) return false;
+  const tail = value.slice(app.index + app[0].length);
+  const lastLineStart =
+    Math.max(
+      tail.lastIndexOf("\n"),
+      tail.lastIndexOf("\r"),
+      tail.lastIndexOf("\u2028"),
+      tail.lastIndexOf("\u2029"),
+    ) + 1;
+  for (const page of tail.matchAll(
+    /(?:^|\/)page(?:\.[cm]?[jt]sx?|-[^/?#]+\.js|)(?=[?#]|$)/gu,
+  ))
+    if (page.index + page[0].length >= lastLineStart) return true;
+  return false;
+};
+
 /** Classify a page filename without treating missing routing context as absence. */
 export const classifyNextAppRoutePath = (
   raw: string,
@@ -104,11 +129,7 @@ export const classifyNextAppRoutePath = (
     }
   }
   if (relative === undefined) {
-    if (
-      /(?:^|\/)app\/(?:[\s\S]*\/)?page(?:\.[cm]?[jt]sx?|-[^/?#]+\.js|)(?:[?#].*)?$/u.test(
-        value,
-      )
-    )
+    if (isPageShapedPath(value))
       return {
         kind: "unknown",
         reason:
diff --git a/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRouteScan.test.ts b/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRouteScan.test.ts
index ffa11558b4..82c8127c5e 100644
--- a/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRouteScan.test.ts
+++ b/src/domain/javascript/javascriptRouteScan.test.ts
@@ -798,6 +798,22 @@ it.each(["app/(.)photo/_private/page.tsx", "app/_private/(.)photo/page.tsx"])(
   },
 );
 
+it("tests long literals for page-shaped Next paths in linear time", () => {
+  const classify = (value: string) =>
+    classifyNextAppRoutePath(value, {
+      kind: "source-literal",
+      runtime: "unknown",
+    })?.kind;
+  const started = performance.now();
+  expect(classify("app/".repeat(64_000))).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(classify(`app/${"x/page?".repeat(32_000)}\nend`)).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(performance.now() - started).toBeLessThan(1_000);
+  expect(classify("lib/app/a\nb/page.tsx")).toBe("unknown");
+  expect(classify("app/page-a\nb.js?v=1")).toBe("unknown");
+  expect(classify("app/x/page?first\nsecond")).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(classify("app/x/page.tsx/extra")).toBeUndefined();
+});
+
 it("keeps the already-covered aliased binary fragment excluded", () => {
   const facts = analyze(
     "createBrowserRouter([{path:'/users'}]);const target={pathname:'/users/'+id};router.push(target);",