working on the dlang.org website

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 15:40:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 07/14/2013 05:19 AM, Val Markovic wrote:
>> 2. Looking at the Network data in the Chrome DevTools, realize 
>> the site
>>    isn't using a CDN. Make a note of mentioning this to the 
>> site
>>    maintainers; using a CDN is critical to performance and 
>> ever since
>>    CloudFlare came on the scene (fast & free CDN that's also 
>> trivial to
>>    set up) there's no excuse not to use one.
> Yes, I get 40kB/s download rate and it takes 4s to load an 
> uncompressed HTML file.
> Compressing http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html could 
> save 139.9KiB (82% reduction).

Not just about speed but also total data transfer, this is 
important for anyone using e.g. a mobile or tablet device with 3G 
data rather than wifi (as I was yesterday, working on a train:-)