Make the website Google Page Speed-compliant

[Marin]

→ http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/#url=http_3A_2F_2Fwebdev.elementaryos.org_2F&mobile=false

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Good call. I'll start minifying the *.js files as *.min.js. Anyone who needs to modify them should modify the original, save it, then minify it and overwrite *.min.js.

I can also begin optimizing images and applying some of the recommended tweaks.

[Kiran Hampal (khampal)]

I was surprised to see this suggestion:
Combine images into CSS sprites

Most of the images are.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Not really my business, but shouldn't you guys mirror the site on a launchpad branch? You could even write a script with a cron job to do that automatically. Like a "daily build" for the website.

[Kiran Hampal (khampal)]

Avi, the answer is going to be no. If we did, it could only be parts of the site like the themes directory.

[Kiran Hampal (khampal)]

Cassidy, you don't need to do it manually. Drupal already has an option to this automatically.

[Fabian Thoma (fabianthoma)]

Google Page speed tells us to leverage Browser Caching on this files, which makes total sense because they are static images(mostly):
http://elementaryos.org/.../basic-sprite-button.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../breadcrumb-hilit.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../breadcrumb-sep-first.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../breadcrumb-sep-last.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../breadcrumb.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../down-arrow.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../bg.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../big_button_sprite.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../radio_checked.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../radio_unchecked.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../select_box.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../text_huge.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../text_jupiter.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../icon-home.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../loginmenu-topbot.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../loginmenu.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../logo.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../nav_sprite.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../entry-center.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../entry-left-right.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../icon-search.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../closebox.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../spacer.gif (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../zoom-caption-fill.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../zoom-caption-l.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../zoom-caption-r.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../zoom-spin-1.png (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../css_e57d03d10a66a73079a67cf7f5271e76.css (expiration not specified)
http://elementaryos.org/.../js_eae6d03551162cb607e47a7a0ab41cd7.js (expiration not specified)