I'd like to see the team spend some time optimizing the CSS sheet used for this version of the forums as well. I'd like to see a CSS document with no comments (if there are sections that are commented out, they aren't used and shouldn't be in production). There's no reason for a client to download this extra information.
Also, there are, when I loaded the main forums page, 108 requests for /resources/images/noicon.gif, which add up to almost 30 KB. Can we shrink that gif size, or remove it altogether?
One last comment/question - Are there size limites to Avatars? Meaning byte size, not physical dimensions.
From Fiddler, here are the site stats just to load the main forums page here:
| Request Count: 184 |
| Bytes Sent: 194,594 |
| Bytes Received: 653,916 |
| |
| ACTUAL PERFORMANCE |
| -------------- |
| Requests started at: 10:31:53:7952 |
| Responses completed at: 10:32:06:8264 |
| Total Sequence time: 00:00:13.0311666 |
| |
| RESPONSE CODES |
| -------------- |
| HTTP/302: 3 |
| HTTP/200: 181 |
| |
| RESPONSE BYTES (by Content-Type) |
| -------------- |
| application/javascript: 39,491 |
| text/javascript: 153,081 |
| application/x-javascript: 172,143 |
| text/css: 56,870 |
| text/x-component: 2,046 |
| ~headers: 65,591 |
| image/jpeg: 50,544 |
| image/png: 5,467 |
| text/html: 64,408 |
| image/gif: 8,602 |
| image/jpg: 35,673 |
Phil Brammer | http://www.ssistalk.com
