[Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization

[Scott Petrovic]

1. Link to updated images if you don't have any. The uploads folder isn't
part of the GIT repo, so they will need to be manually replaced on the
server.

http://www.scottpetrovic.com/uploads/blender-optimizedImages.zip

Most of the other changes are done. Get the latest pull request. I am
leaving the CSS "as is". Any changes I made were negligible since the files
are so small.

That is all I have for the optimizations.

Best,
Scott Petrovic



On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Scott Petrovic <scottpetrovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here are a few areas that would speed up the site.
>
> 1. Optimize the two large images from the carousel. They are still very
> large. They should really be about 200KB each like the other image.
>    a. quadbot (1.7MB)
>    b. test1 (820KB)
>
> 2. remove broken bootstrap.min.js references  (404)
>
> 3. jQuery library is loaded twice for some reason. Remove the second one.
>
> 4. bundle up the three javascript libraries minified (in this order) as
> one file. They don't change often, so it would be better to just combine
> them all to save the requests.
>     a. jQuery
>     b. bootstrap
>     c. bootstrap-tabs
>
> 5. Combine some of the CSS files.I don't see why we need to have so many
> of them (17).
>
>
> Doing all of that should speed up the website quite a bit from a content
> standpoint. If no one is opposed, I am just going to start doing these
> changes and make pull requests when I get them done.
>
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