[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: Improving website speed

[Angelo Compagnucci]

Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

2017-02-23 22:15 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:08:05 +0100, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
>
>> My patch doesn't necessary requires a server side configuration
>> change, usually the module I used in htaccess are enabled in common
>> apache configuration. BTW the use of the modules by a virtualhost is
>> not enabled by default and .htaccess simply enables it.
>> On a shared webserver with hundres of websites for example, changing
>> the cache control setting doesn't require the server sysadmin
>> intervention, cause the htaccess is used to accomodate user
>> preferences on a per site base.
>> Buildroot is probably served by a shared webserver with the required
>> modules enabled, but they are not correctly configured for the
>> buildroot.org virtualhost.
>> So simply dropping the .htaccess in the buildroot virtualhost root
>> directory should do the trick and enable that configuraion.
>
> Right. I want to see what the admins of the webserver have to say
> though.
>
>> Pngcrush is a software for reducing the size of png images without
>> affecting quality. That means that we have to use less bandwidth to
>> serve the same content as before.
>
> I'm OK with what pngcrush does, but in your commit log, you said "The
> images resized to ~60% of the original size.". To me it means that you
> have reduced the size (in pixel) of the images to make them smaller in
> size (in bytes).
>
> Or is the 60% number just the saving (in bytes) thanks to using
> pngcrush?

Yes, of course. I saved ~40% byte size from the original files. I'm
resending a version 2 directly to Peter, using another software
(pngquant) I obtained a better compression of pngs, in that commit
I'll reword the message to be more explicit on bytes saving than on
resizing.

Sincerely, Angelo.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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