Optimizing Speed with 7.1.1

Hello,

loading speed increases Google rank and decreases number of users that drop off before site is loaded.

GTmetrix.com analyses your page speed and comes with recommendations.

Analyzing demo.boonex.com you get some recommendations that could speed things up. I ask Boonex team to review and see if there aren't a couple of things that can be done in order to speed up the upcoming 7.1.1.

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/demo.boonex.com/rFCqAUTz

The single individual thing that a webmaster should do seems to be to use Cloudflare which is a separate topic.

Wow, got an F.....

Wow, got an F.....

http://gtmetrix.com/compare/rFCqAUTz/ff5OyqQB/P2DvzXdb/BD2mzUiI

Seems competitive to me

Many of them i find amusing.

Just based on the complaints i see on this site by members all the time. For example this one.

Serve scaled images

Dolphin does that, but people complain about the fact that dolphin stores multiple copies of images. Each of a different size. Well. This is one of the reasons why.

So if boonex decided to do as people have been requesting and store only one image. That score would be a F instead of a A. If i was for example to develop software like dolphin which i do eventually plan to do. My choice would be to store one image and resize on the fly. So my software would score a F here. And i would not care. But many of the people that use my software would care. But this is also the reason why there are choices. If you don't like the way dolphin or something else your using chooses to do something. Well then don't use it. Freedom of choice.

My 7.0.9 site scores a F. My 7.1 site a B.  And i don't really care. There are reasons for doing things a particular way and those choices affect scores. I find them meaningless most of the time.

What I care about is how responsive the site is to my users.  In my use of the site on a broadband connection of average speed; the site is responsive.  I don't know how it is on a dial-up connection but may look at that since I do have access to dial-up with my service.

I'm not coming from frame of criticism. Coming from that there could still be opportunities for Dolphin developers to make site faster.

Aware that there are probably recommendations that are contradictory, not applicable or would mean to much work to implement.

I understand that the 7.1 did a lot for improving speed vs previous versions.

Personally I found it helpful to use GTmatrix Timeline that showed me how I could cut my loading speed by ~10% by decreasing the number of Videos I showed on the main page.

I'm an optimization lover and just want to make my little contribution to that the out of the box version comes optimized.

 You post this all the time without the actual site link.

I mean how do we even know this is a Dolphin site and now some simple index page you have created.

Back up your claims with an actual site address.

EAccelerator all the way

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/webcamyourface.com/utGgejZu

It's all about what you have on your index page. You can remove all the boxes and score an "A"

 you sure? this is the second time i posted this, about the site link no not here in the forum

Guy's Focus on the post...The speed it much better that it use to be but what he is saying and he is RIGHT focus on what these reports say and try to make the site even faster.

Deano I am not sure how you are interpreting the score issue like this:

Serve scaled images:

can you help me understand the fact that Google says the same thing.  It seems to me that and I could be way off here but let's say you have a picture 300 x 300 in the original upload that is then being re-sized to 150 x 150 that is what it appears to have an issue with.  I had this issue with a program that was uploading an original as given above then the picture was re-sized and Google page speed kept whacking it as an issue.  I played with this for hours and tracked it down to the original upload.  It appears to me the 3 picture thing was designed to deal with this?  The 5 point question is what it the type code these speed tests are looking for when dealing with the picture size issue!  

 
Thats what i am saying. Your misunderstanding what i said.

Dolphin already does this. When you upload a image in dolphin, it creates scaled images for each of the common areas in dolphin. Thats why dolphin scores a A on this. What i am saying is there are tons of people that don't like it done that way. I am one of them. I prefer to keep one image and let the script resize on the fly. And yes, my method will score a F here. But there are also advantages to this.

One of those advantages, and it's a big one(at least to me) is you can at will and at anytime decide you want bigger avatars, or a different size photo on a particular page. Well with my method you can do that and photos do not have to be re-uploaded because the current prescaled images are not the proper size.

It's a matter of choice is what i am saying. I laugh at all the people that bitch about all the images dolphin stores. But that is why dolphin does it. It renders faster and the scores are higher in that area. Yet all i hear are complaints. So i find it amusing. They want the increase in speed, yet seem un-willing to have all those extra photos to do it.

It's a personal choice. Keep tons of prescaled images and sacrifice space, or save space and store fewer photos.

The share this does seem to cause issues as well what does this ask me to do?

Try to remove the following line from templates/base/_header.html file, clear cache and see how it goes:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=__page_charset__" />

Dolphin already uses "Content-Type" header where possible

 Yes that is perfect!

Can't wait to apply this suggestion.  I guess these reports do have an important function.  You may not like them Deano but for people like me they prove to be a benchmark that can not be ignored.  The same benchmarks are what Google uses to leverage SEO! In my world ignoring the rules they use would be like saying "Professor you are an idiot," and then wonder why I got an F in the class. 

OBTW 7.1 SEO is astonishingly aggressive and my pages are catapulting up the pages of Google in days further passing my other site as well on the same subject and really nearly the same page.  Well done Boonex, Well Done indeed!! 

Hi,
pics are one of the things that slow down the site.

This helps shrinking your PNG pics:
http://tinypng.org/

Does someone know where to find more of minimal PNG icons as we have in the dashboard on /member.php?
Would like to keep pics as quick as possible. 

Hi,

leveraging browser caching is an effective way of boosting your rank on GTMetrix.

http://fortheloveofseo.com/blog/performance/leverage-browser-caching-how-to-add-expires-headers/

demo.boonex.com is fast. The Browser levering is however something that doesn't come out of the box for Dolphin but is easily adjusted in htaccess.

The longer caching the better rank. 1 week will make a huge difference.