Optimize Plone.org with slimmer.py
http://plone.org/15th of February 2005
If you do a speed report on Plone.org you notice that the three biggest files it services are plone.css, plone_javascripts.js and index.html. If you run these through my little slimmer whitespace optimizing program in Python you get the following results:
$ python slimmer.py --test http://plone.org/plone.css Took 0.016 seconds Bytes before: 29355 Bytes after: 20265 Bytes saved: 9090 (69.0% of original size) $ python slimmer.py --test http://plone.org/plone_javascripts.js Took 0.057 seconds Bytes before: 27251 Bytes after: 19974 Bytes saved: 7277 (73.0% of original size) $ python slimmer.py --test http://plone.org/ Took 0.029 seconds Bytes before: 37186 Bytes after: 26466 Bytes saved: 10720 (10K) (71.0% of original size)
Using an on-the-fly whitespace optimizer isn't always the right thing to do but in the case of this particular site you prevent serving: 26Kb in 0.1 seconds (on this computer).
26Kb isn't a lot by looking at their traffic summary you see that they could serve 3.3Gb less per month (before gzip compression). That's a big save.
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