Improve page load times

[shereefb]

They're pretty high right now. Google puts the average at 12 seconds!

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flearnersguild.org
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/learnersguild.org/ePcMBWj8

[nbeers22]

Working on this currently. Will install Grunt, which will concatenate and minify all js and css into one file to cut down on the number of requests and total memory.

[shereefb]

Ok, looks like quite a bit of improvement on load time from this:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/learnersguild.org/ePcMBWj8

to this
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/learnersguild.org/vr3Xu9eP

But google page insights still has us in the forties. Let's keep improving these numbers. Bounce rate is pretty high, and we're paying a lot of money for paid search.

[nbeers22]

Yeah, there are a couple more things I can do, I didnt mean to close the
issue.

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[shereefb]

cool

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Yeah, there are a couple more things I can do, I didnt mean to close the
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[nbeers22]

I found a huge issue, which helped the load time a ton, it seems. The problem was with the grunt task i set up. Grunt (gruntfile.js in the root) is what automatically concatenates all css files and minifies into style.min.css each time I build the css file. For some strange reason, it concatenated 9 duplicate versions of animate.css (no clue how lol). So, the CSS file had approximately 120,000 extra lines of code which created a several MB file. That was crushing the load time.

[shereefb]

Nice!
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:52 AM Nate Beers notifications@github.com wrote:

I found a huge issue, which helped the load time a ton, it seems. The
problem was with the grunt task i set up. Grunt (gruntfile.js in the root)
is what automatically concatenates all css files and minifies into
style.min.css each time I build the css file. For some strange reason, it
concatenated 9 duplicate versions of animate.css (no clue how lol). So, the
CSS file had approximately 120,000 extra lines of code which created a
several MB file. That was crushing the load time.

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[nbeers22]

It is better now.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/py67mnxxxp803xw/Screenshot%202016-04-01%2015.54.24.png?dl=0
Browser caching needs to be setup inside the cloudflare account. By default, CloudFlare sets caching to 1 day. Google says it should be at least a week. This is a setp-by-step tutorial on how to do it. http://w3guy.com/set-browser-caching-cloudflare/
I can do it if you give me access, or you will need to set it up. Seems pretty straightforward. Let me know.