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The RPR Goes On A Diet

Posted by Kim on February 13, 2011, 8:57pm

Recently I've gone on an aggressive campaign to reduce site bloat and generally increase the loading speed of all the pages. And it seems to be working. According to the most recent batch of tests, uncached pages should load on average 20 seconds faster for people on 56K modems. Not too shabby. I'm still working on shaving off seconds wherever they can be spared.

This project has involved moving around what is known to those in scientific professions as a metric butt ton of files. The vast majority of things have only gotten more efficient as a result, but there's some potential that I've been over-aggressive and accidentally disabled Javascript on a few unfortunate pages. I've only received a single report (thanks Dragonfire) about such an incident over the last few days, but keep your eyes peeled just in case. In the mean time, happy browsing!

Comments

Fayde

February 17, 2011
7:43pm

Butt tons can be difficult. Good work.

Xheila

February 15, 2011
4:19pm

-cheers on!-

Bonebag

February 14, 2011
10:17pm

T1 or gtfo. Nah, but I approve of this. Good job, Kim, and congratulations on the achievements.

Dragonfire

February 14, 2011
11:04am

Oho, no problem. The forums seem to be loading a wee bit faster even on my lightning!speed connection, too.

SeraphicStar

February 14, 2011
9:21am

I own crappy internets.

I approve of this.