IndexU 5 Clutter

[inspireme]

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.

[inspireme]

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)

[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...

[inspireme]

Good to see this is all cleaned up in version 5.01

good job.

[aladdin1]

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.

[inspireme]

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.

[inspireme]

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

[inspireme]

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

[aladdin1]

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?

[inspireme]

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