|
|
 Posted 27/02/2006 21:42:50 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 03/03/2006 17:13:19
Posts: 15,
Visits: 27
|
|
| I'd like to see the file size of the forum's HTML pages shrunk quite a bit. On my site, for example, here are some page sizes:
Topic details page, with 16 replies: 171kb
Forum page with list of perhaps 20 topics: 87kb
Home page: 78kb I was raised like a good little web developer to always try to keep your page weight under 30kb. Perhaps that's a bit extreme, but it's good to have rules, because then you have to justify breaking them. It's important to remember that there are still a lot of dialup folks out there... having to wait 171kb/4kb/sec=42 seconds to load a page seems a bit extreme. Thoughts? _eric
|
|
|
|
| Posted 27/02/2006 22:00:05 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Customers
Last Login: 15/06/2006 15:30:05
Posts: 19,
Visits: 95
|
|
I'd like to second this request. Many of the ID= tags that are generated by the .NET controls are huge strings. Is there any way to shrink them?
Also, eschlange, you may want to looking XCompress if you have your own dedicated server and a little processor time to spare. I run it on my Win2003 web server and it's worth its weight in gold, IMO. It's kept us from needing to expand our bandwidth. It will take a 500k forum page in InstantForum and compress it down to 37k on the fly for most modern browsers. Your site will appear many times faster to your users.
|
|
|
|
| Posted 28/02/2006 10:38:59 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 03/03/2006 17:13:19
Posts: 15,
Visits: 27
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted 28/02/2006 11:08:26 |
|
|
Supreme Being
Group: Customers
Last Login: 19/11/2007 22:07:59
Posts: 161,
Visits: 2,483
|
|
| I thought IF had a compression feature built-in? Haven't messed with it much, though. i.e. Look at the bottom of the pages here: Anyway, compression isn't going to happen without more processing...no real way around that.
Al Bsharah
Free Stores - http://www.aholics.com
|
|
|
|
| Posted 28/02/2006 11:15:20 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Customers
Last Login: 15/06/2006 15:30:05
Posts: 19,
Visits: 95
|
|
I've tested the IF compression vs. XCompress for IIS version 3.0. Yes IF does do compression but only appears to save about 30% - 40% of the page size. That's pretty good but XCompress is very impressive.
Just one note, if you do try XCompress be sure to disable compression for the captchaimage.aspx page. If compression is enabled on this page the random character string doesn't appear.
|
|
|
|
| Posted 28/02/2006 21:59:13 |
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 11/06/2006 17:13:03
Posts: 20,
Visits: 91
|
|
| Why use XCompress when IIS6.0 and ever 5.0 ships with compression built in? It works just as well, and costs nothing to deploy.
|
|
|
|
| Posted 28/02/2006 22:49:27 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Customers
Last Login: 15/06/2006 15:30:05
Posts: 19,
Visits: 95
|
|
The compression built into IIS6 is OK but cumbersome to manage. IIS5 compression is useless and basically didn't work for anything but static files. (no asp, aspx, php, etc.)
I use Xcompress on IIS6 simply because I used it on my old IIS5 server. Now I've got lots of pages in various sites that use the XCompress COM interface for various functions so upgrading was a no-brainer for me. It was cheaper to stick with xcompress then re-write those pages.
|
|
|
|
| Posted 01/03/2006 23:16:00 |
|
|
Forum Newbie
Group: Customers
Last Login: 15/06/2006 15:30:05
Posts: 19,
Visits: 95
|
|
If you're going to use XCompress be sure to disable the IF compression and whitespace features. No sense adding the overhead of compressing twice.
|
|
|
|