- From: Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:55:14 -0400
- To: Carlos Araya <carlos.araya@gmail.com>, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com>
- CC: List WebPlatform public <public-webplatform@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <53AC88B2.7090702@w3.org>
Hi all, So far, three people said its fine to temporarily disable. I’m going to disable temporary this friday afternoon (in ~18h), unless I get >= 3 by then. Thanks On 2014-06-24, 5:57 PM, Carlos Araya wrote: > Renoir, Jen, > > Concatenating and minimizing the Javascript and CSS help deal with the > issues of HTTP requests and slow loading times. > > If you need help with how to do it, let me know. > > Carlos > On Jun 24, 2014, at 5:13, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com > <mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote: > >> More metrics — a CSS property page takes 7.66 seconds to load, >> making 137 http requests. >> That's /really really/ bad. >> >> We should be well under a 2 second load time, ideally under 1 second. >> >> Jen Simmons >> designer, consultant and speaker >> host of The Web Ahead >> jensimmons.com <http://jensimmons.com/> >> 5by5.tv/webahead <http://5by5.tv/webahead> >> twitter: jensimmons <http://twitter.com/jensimmons> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com >> <mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote: >> >> I think this is a good idea. The annotations sidebar does slow >> the site down tremendously, bringing the page load to 57 >> javascript files and 8 CSS files. YSlow gives the site a 'D'. >> >> Study after study shows that web pages that load slowly loose >> users. I do think the UX of the current Annotations is confusing >> — with a separate login, and a mysterious line / sidebar-thingy >> down the right side of the page. Web Platform needs all the help >> it can get to take off. Having slow loading pages that feel janky >> and have this confusing sidebar login thing doesn't help. >> >> Why don't we temporarily disable the Annotations system, and >> bring it back when 1) the performance is fast, and 2) the UX is >> solved. And then meanwhile focus on getting the compatibility >> table system done. >> >> Jen >> >> Jen Simmons >> designer, consultant and speaker >> host of The Web Ahead >> jensimmons.com <http://jensimmons.com/> >> 5by5.tv/webahead <http://5by5.tv/webahead> >> twitter: jensimmons <http://twitter.com/jensimmons> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org >> <mailto:renoir@w3.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I’ve been thinking to disable temporarily the annotation >> sidebar and I’d >> like your opinion about it. >> >> The day before the Beyond Tellerand DocSprint, I spent more >> than hour >> with somebody on IRC because he couldn’t login to edit pages. >> Its only >> after some time that I realized that he was using the >> annotation sidebar >> as the only way to register to our site. He’s most likely not >> the only >> one who got caught with it. >> >> Maybe its better to remove confusion factors and enable it >> only when we >> have the Accounts-system/SSO enabled. Something that’s coming >> soon anyway. >> >> Besides that, it also impacts the site load time. In fact, >> the sidebar >> loader calls a bunch of files like a web application development >> environment would —not a production one, which our deployment >> is. Their >> development stack (Python) actually has the piping to minify >> their >> assets, its just not configured yet. >> >> >> My proposal: >> >> - Disable the automatic annotator sidebar loader >> - Keep the notes.webplatform.org <http://notes.webplatform.org/> >> - Upgrade the annotator as soon as its available, that includes: >> - SSO integration (they’re almost there) >> - Sidebar loader performance (in progress) >> >> The time frame is about a week or so. >> >> Opinions >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Renoir Boulanger | Developer operations engineer >> W3C | Web Platform Project >> >> http://w3.org/people/#renoirb ✪ >> https://renoirboulanger.com/ ✪ @renoirb >> ~ >> >> >> >> > -- Regards, Renoir Boulanger | Developer operations engineer W3C | Web Platform Project http://w3.org/people/#renoirb ✪ https://renoirboulanger.com/ ✪ @renoirb ~
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