Re: AW: Making w3.org much faster

On 3 Aug 2011, at 9:24 AM, FinanzNachrichten.de, Markus Meister wrote:

> Dear Ian,
> 
> Maybe it would be possible to use browser sniffing for the mobile devices?

We've explicitly chosen not to do browser sniffing.
> 
> Concerning the CSS sprites file it was a hard decision for us which graphics we give into the sprites file and which not.
> Especially for around 100 country flags that we use on pages like this:
> http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-medien/uebersicht.htm
> 
> As you can see in our sprites file, we have finally included around the top-20 flags.
> And all icons - except of the calendar icon that we only use in our advanced search
> http://www.finanznachrichten.de/suche/uebersicht.htm - are in the sprites file.
> 
> At the end we used Yahoo's Smush.it http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ and Google's Page Speed http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ to
> optimize the size of the files (without losing quality).

We would not be able to have other sites host our content.

> 
> So, as a first step it would make sense to analyze the traffic and which graphic files are loaded how often.

Agreed.

> I could imagine that it may make sense to have 1 general CSS sprites file + a second one for specific parts of the website, e.g. for
> http://validator.w3.org .
> 
> I am sure that this effort (3-10 working days depending on the CMS) will lead to a clearly visible increase of speed + reduction of
> server load.

Thanks again!

Ian

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> FINANZNACHRICHTEN.DE
> Markus Meister
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ian Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. August 2011 13:27
> An: FinanzNachrichten.de, Markus Meister
> Cc: site-comments@w3.org
> Betreff: Re: Making w3.org much faster
> 
> 
> On 3 Aug 2011, at 2:48 AM, FinanzNachrichten.de, Markus Meister wrote:
> 
>> Dear Ian,
>> 
>> When I visit the homepage, there are a lot of (unnecessary) http-requests.
>> 
>> Firebug currently shows me 35 requests of which 4 are tiny CSS files.
>> It would make sense to have 1 big CSS file instead. This would save 3 requests. From my experience 1 request with 1 byte costs at
>> least the same load time as additional 10 kB in an file (using ADSL - depending on the bandwidth it can even be worse).
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Thank you for the comments. We have considered "one big css" but prefer to keep them separate to better address the diversity of
> mobile devices.
> 
>> 
>> There are 28 graphic files.
>> I am sure that it would be possible to put at least 3/4 of them into a CSS sprite file, e.g. the logo, the icons, etc.
> 
> Yes, we could (and should) do that.
> 
>> 
>> Here you can see what happens during loading of the homepage on the First View and a Repeated View:
>> http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110803_1F_17GF4/
>> 
>> With the CSS files put together in 1 file and the often used graphics put together in 1 CSS sprite file, the number of
> http-requests
>> should be around 10 and the load time will be down from nearly 2 seconds to 1 second.
> 
> Thanks for the detailed investigation!
> 
>> 
>> In the Repeat View you can see many 304s as there is a caching error that should be fixed as well.
>> This would then bring down the second visit to 1-3 http-requests and would make the page ultra-fast!!
>> 
>> Further to that convenience for users, the servers would have less work as there are less http-requests which may lead to cost
>> savings.
> 
> I appreciate the help and expect we will devote some time to the CSS sprite work (when we can prioritize it).
> 
> Ian
> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> FINANZNACHRICHTEN.DE
>> Markus Meister
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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