Guy Verville Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) I am glad to present our recent website. It was made, of course, with Processwire and this is the first time we use this CMS in our company. The website (in French only) is aimed to gather ski results from four youth ski clubs (our clients). The administrators needed something easy to use and be able to import XML ski results after a race. Those results are divided between ages (four categories, girls and boys), each ski category having its own rules for distribute points and ranking. The administrators wanted also a place where representatives of each club could post photos (elite team only). Processwire was the perfect candidate for this site which is fully mobile. Race calendar and results (click on this archived season to see the whole process since the present season has not yet begun as the writing of this post.) Annual ranking Documents (use of hanna code to place and identify type of document) Photo albums Elite clubs Edited December 29, 2016 by Guy Verville completing the post 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabesz Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Nice design! It takes time to download the assets though. I noticed that tiny icons and logos are around 600-700kb each, why is that? Say album-arrow.png is 636kb, but after I have optimized it, it is down to 300 bytes only. This is just one example, there are lots of others. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Verville Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 You are absolutely right. The site has to be put rapidly online and this optimization has not been well done. It will be corrected when we will be back to work next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisChung Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) You should use sites like Google's Page Speed Test or Web Page Test to test how fast your sites are: I think currently the unoptimised images are killing your site's scores but appreciate it was rushed out and not optimised. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fzonedeskidelestrie.com%2F&tab=mobile http://www.webpagetest.org/result/161230_DH_MDH/ Edited December 30, 2016 by FrancisChung Forgot URL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Verville Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Hi Francis, I know those tools. Perhaps I was too eager to show this site before optimizing it. We didn't stressed that much this aspect because the client doesn't need to be known. That seems weird, but there is no Google Analytics set on this site. Why? Because this is almost an intranet of a sort. Anyway, that doesn't excuse anything. As the Webpagetest tells, there is another more irritating aspect : the first byte latency. Those statistics are to be taken with a grain of salt also. The visitor gets visuals after 1.5 sec (http://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?id=161230_DH_MDH.1.0). What takes so long are those images in the photo album which aren't that optimized even though there is a routine to implement srcset/sizes alternatives, and also the buttons (I don't understand that there aren't svg. I'll ask the team to redo that). So, too soon to present this. :-( 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabesz Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Never mind @Guy Verville! It's a nice site, thanks for showcasing it. It is just that this forum is full of developers, so we cannot help it but comment... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Verville Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Don't worry, I do respect what is said here and will act accordingly. In fact, some improvements have already been pushed on GIT (lowering, for example, the image quality to 70) but our git server is down today ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisChung Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 20 hours ago, Guy Verville said: So, too soon to present this. :-( I guess you had a deadline of sorts. But still, I'm always weary of showing anything that is not either complete or falls below what I think the Client expects. Been at the wrong end of it too many times for no reason of my doing. 20 hours ago, szabesz said: Never mind @Guy Verville! It's a nice site, thanks for showcasing it. It is just that this forum is full of developers, so we cannot help it but comment... .... or help out with (mostly) constructive suggestions ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Verville Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Better results now: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170101_41_KJA/1/performance_optimization/#cache_static_content I am puzzled by the expiration problems. I have ProCache installed and the necessary tweaks have been put in the .htaccess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndZyk Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Maybe you have to enable the expires module on apache of your hoster first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Verville Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 I will ask my IT team. I am surprised that it is not set by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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