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.
From What I've learned so far the main performance problem usually is
Drupal itself.
By the way: I think gnu.org and fsf.org might not be the prettiest pages, but performance wise there is just nothing to complain. From my point of view you don't need bootstrap or any other big thing to do a decent css design. Most of the time its not about features, but about proportions and relations.
Franz
↪ 2014-10-01 Wed 14:45, Franz Gratzer franz.gratzer@fsfe.org:
From What I've learned so far the main performance problem usually is Drupal itself.
We don't use drupal on fsfe.org
By the way: I think gnu.org and fsf.org might not be the prettiest pages, but performance wise there is just nothing to complain. From my
Open fsf.org or gnu.org from a mobile device then ☺. Sorry, but that's not a decent design in 2014.
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Hugo Roy wrote:
By the way: I think gnu.org and fsf.org might not be the prettiest pages, but performance wise there is just nothing to complain. From my
Open fsf.org or gnu.org from a mobile device then ☺. Sorry, but that's not a decent design in 2014.
Perhaps there is no possibility for us to agree here.
Cheers, Ineiev