[Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization

[Peter Carrero]

Coming in a bit late in the discussion... I'd propose automating the compression/minification of css and js files with a tool like grunt.js. Doing these kinds of automation is crucial for easy of code maintenance and reduces the possibility of human error introduced in the process. 

Here is an example of how to do it: http://blog.dylants.com/2013/08/13/minify-assets-using-grunt/

It will be the weekend before I have any time, if no one tackles this until then, I can get it setup. 

Aside from what the others already mentioned, the biggest performance gain we will we is probably from the caching layers, which is more of a devops/infrastructure field rather than plain development. A well-tuned MySQL server (or cluster), an opcode cache for php, the use of memcache and all that with something like varnish to receive the brunt of web requests should make the site very snappy. Do we know what are the plans for the infrastructure architecture?

-Peter
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> On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:58, Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> the basic website content is almost completely ported. It's now time
> to start preparing the actual migration.
> 
> One aspect I would like to discuss is optimisation (images, code
> compression, etc.). Does anyone have proposals, suggestions or remarks
> about this?
> 
> Francesco
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