Terrible Frontpage performance

[Frotty]

I mean, what is with all the huge, lossless png images and gifs in the news articles?
The site is totally unresponsive and takes forever to load. Also I can not login because the login box only loads after the site has loaded.
The google page scores are quite terrible.
Mobile:

Desktop:

The desktop site is 100+ MB of which 80% are off screen images?!
If you don't want to implement some async loading, how about using proper compression on the media like webp/webm?

 

[deepstrasz]

Bookmark the forums page instead of the index. It helps.

 

[loktar]

All images in all posts should be automatically thumbnailed if they exceed a certain size.

 

[pyf]

People should learn to first optimize any image they intend to upload, with software such as IrfanView for example.

As for animated GIFs, I am still advocating for serving APNG or lossy WebP versions of them instead, to the web browsers which support any of them. Even though they will most probably require more memory than their animated GIF equivalent, such modern file formats have a much smaller file size, and therefore they download faster. That way, the page loading would be less heavy for the end user.

APNG - Wikipedia
WebP - Wikipedia

 

[Vinz]

Hello. To help alleviate loading time, I will do the following from now:

• Limit the amount of GIFs to around half the level seen in the most recent spotlight
• Compress the GIFs, saving at least 25% space
• Start using WEBP instead of PNG, saving up to 90% space

Thank you.

 

[pyf]

bump!

@Mythic: any news on this? Because it does not seem to have been fully implemented yet (if at all?):
Warcraft III: Reforged Developer Update - Player Profiles
(featured on the news page - lots of heavy PNGs in the OP)


** Update **

As an example:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/attachments/t5hgqhvnyggd1597703906623-png.362326/



Now come on...

 

[loktar]

I think he forgot it with the latest post (or made an exception), because lately he's been using thumbnails.

 

[Vinz]

I'm sorry. I was in a rush. I've compressed that batch now.

 

[stein123]

The site is totally unresponsive and takes forever to load.

Jesus christ i thought it was just me :c.

 

[pyf]

@Mythic: This is better indeed.


Bottom line: 256 colors ought to be enough for anybody.