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    Ok i thought version 3.2 was bad for clutter (ie. un-needed files you will all be uplaoding to the web and will never get used..)

    In the kosmos tempalte get rid of :
    (all in kosmos/images/)

    template_40.gif
    template_36.gif
    template_35.gif
    template_32.gif
    template_31.gif
    template_20.gif
    template_19.gif
    template_11.gif
    template_37.gif
    template_43.gif
    template_33.gif
    template_28.gif
    template_21.gif
    bg_bar.jpg

    Best to back them up incase you find they are used somewhere (i havent noticed any that are yet)

    sure their are more, I will edit them to this post. Please submit any other clutter you spot. dody - remove these from the download package.

    On a seperate note the graphics in this version are again bloated and un needed... for example you load up the top green bar, then a different bar that is identical for the bottom. Combine the bars, all you need to do is remove about 12 pixels to get rid of the side shadow and you save yourself 4K of download every visitor. You can shorten the bar and put it on repeat as a background and take the size right down to 800bytes! now you saved yourself 7K a visitor on one item!

    you can easily cut the template size in half without any visable effects.
    Last edited by inspireme; 12-16-2005 at 11:47 AM.
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    Ok heres a list of any un-needed html/php files in the disctribution file

    upload_form.html
    upload.php

    (again, delete at your own risk... i have seen no problems)
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    I can make a version of the kosmos template thats 4 seconds quicker, contains no clutter, and validates to 4.01 transitional html. Also can get the .css to validate. and make it section 508/ WAI complaint (web accesibility)

    Im making 3 more sites with indexU in the new year so this is a personal project so i only have to fix things once. Does anybody else want to help / share their work on getting the code to validate, or just to get a copy of the cleaned version post here.

    It would be great to get a community going here again, if nobody really cares much then i may as well just do it for myself. I like to share progress though...
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    Good to see this is all cleaned up in version 5.01

    good job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by inspireme
    I can make a version of the kosmos template thats 4 seconds quicker, contains no clutter, and validates to 4.01 transitional html. Also can get the .css to validate. and make it section 508/ WAI complaint (web accesibility)

    Im making 3 more sites with indexU in the new year so this is a personal project so i only have to fix things once. Does anybody else want to help / share their work on getting the code to validate, or just to get a copy of the cleaned version post here.

    It would be great to get a community going here again, if nobody really cares much then i may as well just do it for myself. I like to share progress though...
    Hello,

    I will help you if you want. It is probable that some images could be down size (or replace) like be_editor.jpg it is over 15 kb and display on most pages. Something else I done is moving the left cell to footer so one can manage it once ( I use it to display adsense skycraper 120x600 )I also think that the left block are too large.

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    Okay well i have three new direcotries about to cutomise, although i usually change all graphics i do use the kosmos ones to base it around so will clean up a copy to work from. I will attach a cleaned version, with header footer index and images in a few days. Just upload and overwrite.

    Im dumping the right grey box, the yahoo rss, and joining graphics to begin with - Maybe shorten the boxes, that would be more cosmetic that speed saving though.
    Last edited by inspireme; 04-11-2006 at 05:50 AM.
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    Before i start heres what the directory is before optimisation :

    Download times :
    56K 37.98 seconds

    External Object QTY
    Total HTML: 1
    Total HTML Images: 26
    Total CSS Images: 5
    Total Images: 31
    Total Scripts: 6
    Total CSS imports: 2
    Total Frames: 0
    Total Iframes: 0

    Total HTTP Requests: 40
    Total Size: 188585 bytes

    Ok question time :
    Why is calender script loaded if im not using it? its all in the header... What is it anyway, and why would i use it?

    Lets aim for sub 12 second load time
    Last edited by inspireme; 04-11-2006 at 05:23 AM.
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    OK! havent really even got started but its down to 9.4 seconds now... I lost 5seconds by dumping the yahoo rss feed, so i suppose thats cheating a little, if your using rss then use one that doesnt load images.

    Other than that spot the difference! : http://www.theleisureguide.co.uk/

    Mostly the backgrounds images have been cut up to be just a few pixels, they then repeat to create the same effect as a long image. Instead of loading different graphics i have combined them. I have compressed them all and switched some to png.

    check out your site and compare it to this optimised site from here :http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

    Remember mine doesnt have any content, so its bound to be a little less. I think i could take a few more seconds off the html files by removing the table structure. If you want me to optimise your site (any design) I charge $75 you will notice no difference in appearance and experience at least 1/3 quicker load times. If not i wont charge you!!! (depends if you have done anything yourself though, i will estimate how much i could save if you post your url)

    If i kept going im pretty sure i could get that page to load in 8, maybe even 7 seconds.

    new stats :

    56K 9.42 seconds

    Object Size Totals

    Object type Size (bytes)
    HTML: 16875
    HTML Images: 19938
    CSS Images: 2137
    Total Images: 22075
    Javascript: 4433
    CSS: 2873
    Multimedia: 0
    Other: 0
    Total HTTP Requests: 19
    Total Size: 46256 bytes

    The modded site is 407% quicker

    about 200% is gettign rid of calender(whatever that is) and the rss feed.

    Post here if you want me to send the changed files.

    ps. top buttons dont work, you jsut need to stick in the image map, im beign lazy will do it later
    Last edited by inspireme; 04-11-2006 at 05:51 AM.
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    Hello,

    I would love to get the change file. One more question (I will also ask Dody) the file is not compress, I usually insert:


    <?php

    ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

    ?>

    to compress my file, I try to insert it in header but it made no difference where do you think it should be insert to compress the file?

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    All those f changes i posted are im the new version... it also uses gzip to speed up
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