Hello,
After Paul’s comments on the size of the CSS used for fsfe.org, I
decided to look a little bit into the performence of fsfe.org.
Regarding the CSS: from my assessment, there’s little we can do
to make that file smaller except. Bootstrap has a LOT of features
(and I think that most of them are much needed). CSS is hard, and
LESS makes things really better, but it cannot do magic and deal
around the inherent limitations of HTML+CSS. So all we could do is
try to leave out some of the bootstrap features we don’t use,
which would require some work while the results would not be
great. The css file would still be quite large to Paul’s taste I
suppose. This is the price to pay to have a website that does not
suck like gnu.org or fsf.org I suppose (sorry for the people
working on these websites, I mainly complain about their CSS. Also
for GNU.org I proposed to help and they didnot follow up, so I
guess I have a right to criticise ☺ ).
Other things could be optimised:
- ribbon_fellowship2.png is much larger than ribbon.png -- I
suppose this could be improved
- highlight.pack.js is bigger than the whole jquery. Surely this
can be improved (do we even use that highlight thing, I
don’tremember)
- the group-blur picture is the largest file. This is my fault.
The picture could be smaller in size.
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Hugo Roy, Free Software Foundation Europe, <www.fsfe.org>
Deputy Coordinator, FSFE Legal Team, <www.fsfe.org/legal>
Coordinator, FSFE French Team, <www.fsfe.org/fr>
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