Metapost: Image Yanking

I've gone through the site template and yanked out a half dozen images, including the links to my Amazon, B&N, GoodReads, and NaNoWriMo profiles and the images for the Daily Deals because my image host was loading way too slow and page loads were taking forever.

The Daily Deals are still in their usual place, just texty now. The profile links will migrate over to my About Me page at some point in the future.

I also took out the Ramble chat box because it wasn't really seeing heavy use. I hope these changes will only please people and provide faster page loads and will not cause sad faces for anyone.

6 comments:

Steve Morrison said...

Thanks! The site does load much faster now.

Will Wildman said...

Same here; I noticed how much faster it was loading before I even read this latest headline. Sad to cut back on all the many colours, but the impact is dramatic. (I assume this won't extend to the delightful accompanying images within posts themselves? Endless otters and beavers were an integral part of the previous Narnia journey.)

Ana Mardoll said...

The in post images are hosted through a different service -- blogger has an interface to Picasa and uses them, and they seem to load a little faster, so I think they can stay as-is.

In fact, I might try migrating over some of the remaining images to Picasa and see we can speed up page loads even more...

Michael Mock said...

Yep, looks good to me!

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Timothy (TRiG) said...

Theory: Websites should load data from four domains.

Apparently browsers will not do much parallel downloading from one domain. If they're downloading twenty images, scripts, stylesheets, whatever from a domain, they'll do two at a time, not all at once. But they will download from other domains, so if you put each element on a different domain, they'll all download at once.

But the DNS lookup to turn the domain name into a number takes time, and slows the site down. The good folks at Yahoo! have done some testing and settled on four as the optimum number of domains.

TRiG.

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