Experience is slow to load (times on cable: 10 sec initial; 5 sec cached)

[cvan]

In production, I've seen initial page loads take as long as 10 seconds (usually between 6 and 10) and subsequent page loads of 5 seconds (usually between 2.5 and 5). With the local dev server, things are even slower where things aren't gzip'd, served from an HTTP/2 server, etc.

Assets, especially for a game of this size, should be progressively loaded when possible.

There's a bunch of logic in the JS to explicitly block the rendering of the scene until every asset is loaded. This means the user sees a spinning loading throbber icon while 10 MB of assets download.

The lowest-hanging fruit would be all the audio files (.ogg), which could certainly be loaded in the background while the scene is rendered.

(And I filed #76 about the lack of visual cues/progress/error states that something's actually happening.)

[arturitu]

Here it tooks 6.18 seconds to load to uploaded site. Perhaps it take more time if is with budo in localhost?

[cvan]

Notice in the first sentence that I'm talking about production. I said between 6 and 10 seconds. You said 6.18, so that's within the range I'm talking about.

As mentioned above as well, the audio files are definitely low-hanging fruit to speed things up so we're not intentionally blocking the scene for no reason.

Also, 204 requests and 18.4 MB is a ton to synchronously load before showing the user anything.

I agree with this: https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/776015862914514944