[geeklog-devel] Reducing the number of HTTP requests

[Dan Stoner]

Can you reproduce using browser Web Developer tools?  Chrome has a Net tab
that times each request, gives size, etc.

I have noticed Geeklog.net "feels" slow sometimes, I just assumed it was a
figment of the hosting server.

- Dan Stoner
 On Oct 12, 2013 4:47 PM, "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> While hunting down some profile spammers, I noticed (not for the first
> time) that it does take quite a lot of HTTP requests to load the Geeklog
> homepage.
>
> Below is a list of what it takes to load and display our homepage. These
> are real numbers, grep'ed from the web server log file just now. First
> column is a timestamp, followed by the URL and the number of bytes sent.
>
> That's 34 HTTP requests. Note that it takes a full six seconds to send
> everything (1 second to render the page, then 5 seconds until the last
> resource has been requested). That's not exactly a great response time, to
> put it mildly. This will get better on subsequent pages, when the browser
> caches things. But 6 seconds is what it takes for a first-time visitor.
>
> (The visitor came from a DSL line and the server wasn't busy at the time)
>
> I see a few obvious things (why are we loading the CSS for polls and
> captcha on the front page?) and a few potential fixes (merge JavaScript
> files; maybe also some of the images).
>
> Other ideas?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
>
> --- snip ---
> 16:20:43 / (11012)
> 16:20:44 /layout/modern_curve/style.css.php?dir=ltr (59466)
> 16:20:45 /polls/style.css (1538)
> 16:20:45 /captcha/style.css (684)
> 16:20:45 /forum/forum/layout/forum.css (3256)
> 16:20:45 /layout/modern_curve/images/logo.png (16336)
> 16:20:45 /javascript/common.js (4244)
> 16:20:45 /forum/smilies.css.php (1828)
> 16:20:45 /javascript/jquery.min.js (92923)
> 16:20:45 /layout/modern_curve/javascript/fix_html.js (1435)
> 16:20:45 /layout/modern_curve/javascript/confirm.js (501)
> 16:20:46 /layout/modern_curve/javascript/search.js (1076)
> 16:20:47 /images/facebook-login-icon.png (845)
> 16:20:47 /images/twitter-login-icon.png (911)
> 16:20:47 /images/openid_login_icon.png (812)
> 16:20:47 /layout/modern_curve/images/print.png (756)
> 16:20:48 /images/topics/announcements.png (3847)
> 16:20:48 /images/topics/plugins.png (2717)
> 16:20:48 /images/buttons/download.png (6977)
> 16:20:48 /docs/images/de.png (694)
> 16:20:48 /docs/images/pl.png (631)
> 16:20:48 /docs/images/jp.png (641)
> 16:20:48 /docs/images/fr.png (675)
> 16:20:48 /docs/images/es.png (687)
> 16:20:48 /javascript/fix_tooltips.js (1596)
> 16:20:48 /javascript/login.js (1082)
> 16:20:48 /layout/modern_curve/images/css/bg.png (587)
> 16:20:48 /layout/modern_curve/images/css/bg_header.png (485)
> 16:20:48 /layout/modern_curve/images/css/menu_bg.png (466)
> 16:20:48 /layout/modern_curve/images/css/block_bg.png (577)
> 16:20:49 /layout/modern_curve/images/css/search-right.png (6671)
> 16:20:49 /images/buttons/feed.png (896)
> 16:20:49 /layout/modern_curve/images/button_help.png (532)
> 16:20:49 /layout/modern_curve/images/favicon.ico (1429)
>
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