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By: Martijn Broeders
Author Bio: We DesignScan your website with our self developed tools for: design flaws, usability, GUI, images, code age, a.o., and report back to you with a detailed report on- and off-line.
what we’ve been up to….
- CMS;
- Image;
- Optimising;
- Caching;
- Passing 100 designscans;
- Next;
CMS:
We upgraded our ExpressionEngine version from 2.7.3 to 2.9.0. ExpressionEngine is the core for DesignScan. This update has first been done on our developer version of DesignScan.me so that all problems where solved before moving to the live version.
It took longer than we participated, but we did it. Lot of modules, plug-ins and extensions needed to be updated or code slightly altered to run with the new EE 2.9.- Template codes needed to be altered (due to a new conditionals parser)
- Testing member section and payment module (mayor update as well)
Image:
From now on we use “lossless” compression for our image compression.gifsicle -b -O2 --no-names --no-comments --same-delay --same-loopcount --no-warnings {{path}}
pngquant --quality=70-85 --ext=.png --force {{path}}
pngout -q {{path}}
jpegoptim --strip-all --all-progressive -q {{path}}This resulted in significant savings in terms of KB's.
Optimising:
We combined and minified our stylesheets and javascript files.Resulting in appealing 1 stylesheet file and 1 javascript file.
Our HTML is minified as well, look at our websites source code.
Caching:
We use APC (Alternative PHP Cache) as php Opcode.
Redis for key-value cache and store
Server: Gzip enabled.
Result:
Size Uncompressed Size 1 Document 7 KB 31 KB 56 Images 80 KB 80 KB 0 Objects 2 Scripts 7 KB 246 KB 1 Style Sheet 8 KB 505 KB 60 Files 102 KB 862 KB Passing 100 designscans:
Great news, we past the 100 DesignScans last week.
Next:
Working on some nice video tutorials, will go live this week.
Going to complete our support section.
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