Closed 1000TurquoisePogs closed 10 months ago
note: to a lesser extent, medium.com gifs are also large so people should avoid them too, but they only show up when scrolling further down the page.
The medium.com needs to be done differently. I intend to get to it at some point, but otherwise closing as the PR is merged.
The zowe.org logo update in https://github.com/zowe/zowe.github.io/pull/873 caused a performance regression, because it is the second biggest asset loaded, slowing the page load down on slow connections.
Slow connection performance is important. You may view zowe.org on a hotel or conference wifi that is unbearably slow. You do not want to make the experience worse for first-time viewers.
You can simulate the performance in dev tools by selecting "3G", as I did. You will notice that the animation doesn't even animate well, due to its slow load.
This can be solved by optimization. There is no reason to use an unoptimized GIF. A simple fix is to convert it to APNG, a format supported by all browsers which is much more efficient. Example:![ezgif com-gif-to-apng](https://github.com/zowe/zowe.github.io/assets/30730276/18ddeed3-c704-43c1-ba5f-0c84cb0e6c06)
This could be mitigated by https://github.com/zowe/zowe.github.io/pull/874