Shrink your package

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## Shrink your package

I added on-the-fly compression of all html and xml files. The spmaps list now is a cute 30 Kilobytes download instead of the completely crazy 200 Kilobytes earlier… This wasn’t done earlier because I thought it was a default setting. Well, apparently it was not. As a visitor you should not notice any difference except for maybe a faster download.
Unfortunately my server throws errors if I try to make the images cached well by browsers, but I guess that is negligible.
If you have further hints or ideas how to make the site even faster and nicer to use, please share your thoughts.

In other news Hrimfaxi sent me a load of old maps. Some are nice but the majority is of such quality that makes you want to run away screaming. I am afraid negke did just that (at least mentally). So reviewing them will take a bit. ;)
Anyways, many thanks to Hrimfaxi! (And many thanks to aguiRe who sent in some maps that were added in the last update, I forgot.)

23.07.2008 in quaddicted.com | 7 Comments »

### 7 Responses to “Shrink your package”

1. Gilgamesh Says:
   23.07.2008 17:44

   You can run the YSlow Firebug plugin, via Firefox (of course), to get some tips of what you need to optimize. It’s a very good tool for the job.

2. sielwolf Says:
   24.07.2008 14:47

   missing DM/trick maps:

   just went through some cdr’s from around the time when the Hub got hacked; Spirit feel free to sort them in, but there were so many that I just made two zips, ~50 MB each:

   http://shub-hub.com/files/maps_multiplayer/zzz_shub-hub_dm_1.zip
   http://shub-hub.com/files/maps_multiplayer/zzz_shub-hub_dm_2.zip

3. Spirit Says:
   24.07.2008 15:07

   Gilgamesh: I used that at first, but it did not notice the change to gzip plus I managed to make act falsely. So I ditched it.
   One thing I should do is compress the javascript on the list page, but as that does not even work properly at the moment it’s low priority.
   Thanks. :)

   sielwolf: Sweet, thanks!

4. RoyalE Says:
   25.07.2008 07:46

   Spirit,

   I think that your site is among the fastest Quake sites. Congrats.

   One small request–when you publish listings of new updales (like “Updates once again” posted on 06/July/2008), could you please list based on ratings (Excellent/Nice, etc)? Then, one doesn’t have to hunt through some 20 pages to select the best ones! :-)

5. ijed Says:
   26.07.2008 05:15

   Quad has always been the best archive, of anything.

6. Trinca Says:
   29.07.2008 11:58

   /me hugs Spirit :)

7. erc Says:
   04.08.2008 17:24

   Hm, do we have those InnerGroove maps?

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