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OS//OS Website for 2016
http://osos.nz
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Web Site Speed Optimizations #4

Open gardner opened 8 years ago

gardner commented 8 years ago

Overview We could improve the page load times of opensourceopensociety.com by making a few tweaks. I am happy to pair on this if you have the time.

Speed Report The site pingdom.com offers free tools for evaluating the load times of websites. Please take a moment to review the report at https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dD1I0R/http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/

Concatenating CSS & JS I noticed a CodeKit configuration file in the repo. It looks like CodeKit can be used to concatenate multiple files into one: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15120151/1144060

Hosting images on a separate subdomain There are a lot of options to set this up. We could host the images on GitHub Pages just by setting up a static.opensourceopensociety.com subdomain that points to the repo. Alternatively we could host images on

Set Expires Header This helps content to be cached by browsers, proxies, CDNs, and load balancers. I submitted a pull request to enable a default expiry of one week here: https://github.com/OpenSourceOpenSociety/OSOS2016_website/pull/3

kapziel commented 8 years ago

Sweet, that sounds good. Thanks for the opening the issue @gardner

Keen to pair with you on this, when's best to do this?