On Dec 30, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Sherif Ramadan wrote: > Now for the bad news: > > 1) Prototype actually requires a lot more requests per page view than the > existing site. (Upon preliminary testing this about double the number of > requests on average). The main reason for this seems to be that the prototype > is using one data URI per image in the footer where we display the PHP > elephant plushies. This is actually very bad, because data URIs generally > gon't get cached by the User Agent. This could mean a lot of extra HTTP > requests per page view increasing load with minimal benefit. I highly suggest > we refactor this to use a single PNG file as a sprite image that can be > cached by the UA and with a little CSS it can work any necessary effect magic > needed.
I think you are misunderstanding how data URIs work. We make one JSON request to get N elephant images. We then place these into the DOM using data URIs specifically to avoid the request overhead you are talking about. If your network pane reports ~40 requests, then about half of these are not actually http requests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Advantages Stew -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
