Reported by aron.carroll, 2 years ago.

Try and increase the page load times for the front end.

Now

• Always include scripts at the bottom
• Include CSS at the top
• Load fonts with JS
• Concatenate and minify JavaScript? files
• Create a build script to load dependancies seperately
• Enable Gzip compression on resources
• Enable future cache headers on resources

Next

• Support serving assets from a CDN
• Look into optimising the CSS - Remove large portions of unused CSS
• Remove extreaneous libraries, can jQuery UI be replaced with bootstrap?

Tools

• Webkit Inspector Audits
• YSlow Firebug Plugin - ​http://yslow.org/
• Speed Tracer - ​https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ognampngfcbddbfemdapefohjiobgbdl

Continuous Integration

YSlow can be hooked up to Jenkins via Phantom JS

Reported by aron.carroll, 2 years ago.

Currently an eye and a number, needs to look a little nicer.