[Bf-webcontent] Bf-webcontent Digest, Vol 45, Issue 5

Sat Oct 19 22:18:22 CEST 2013

I have made the most recent fixes to the GIT repo. Let me know if there is
any further work you would like me to help out with.

Best,
Scott Petrovic

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>    1. Re: Fixed the rest of the issues that I found so far
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>    2. Website performance optimization (Francesco Siddi)
>    3. Re: Website performance optimization (Daniel Schalla)
>    4. Re: Website performance optimization (Scott Petrovic)
>    5. Re: Website performance optimization (Scott Petrovic)
>    6. Re: Website performance optimization (Peter Carrero)
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> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:51:48 +0200
> From: Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Fixed the rest of the issues that I found
>         so far
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> Hi Scott,
> thank you very much for the great work on this! Your changes are now
> on the staging website.
>
> Francesco
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> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:58:23 +0200
> From: Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization
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> 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:03:48 +0200
> From: Daniel Schalla <d.schalla at be-untitled.eu>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization
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> Add GZIP Compression in HTTP and also add Expiration Dates for Content
> Cache.
>
> In general, some small things:
> http://gtmetrix.com/reports/staging.blender.org/XCyHZfA4
>
> But it seems anyway that this kind of optimization is not wanted, correc?
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:03:54 -0500
> From: Scott Petrovic <scottpetrovic at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization
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> 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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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:35:13 -0500
> From: Scott Petrovic <scottpetrovic at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization
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> 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
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>
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> 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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> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:02:05 -0500
> From: Peter Carrero <peter.carrero at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-webcontent] Website performance optimization
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> 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
> "Non sibi, sed civitas."
> --
> "The job isn?t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the
> status quo."
> Seth Godin
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> ?You have to be willing to give up the life you've planned for in order to
> live the life that's waiting for you.?
> Joseph Campbell
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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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