Codonomics Web-Site

TODOs

• Minify and Combine CSS
• Minify and Combine JS
• Enable GZip compression
• Explore Asset pipelines for Jekyll using (jekyll-assets or anything else)
• Explore using http://fontello.com/ instead of fontawesome or other font files, to reduce footprint and increase page speed
• Leverage Browser cacheing
• Remove Unused CSS Rules

Performance Improvements

The following things are done to improve the performance of the site

• Improve Website Load Times Using Progressive JPEGs. Use -interlace option in ImageMagic's convert command for this.
• Compress images for faster page loading. You can run the following command in mac's commandline to reduce the image size (ImageMagic should be imstalled before this.) convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.5 -quality 25 -fuzz 40% banner.jpg banner5.jpg

References for further reading

• Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick
• How does progressive JPEG work?
• Use ImageMagick to create optimised and progressive JPGs
• YUIBlogDevelopmentImage Optimization, Part 4: Progressive JPEG...Hot or Not? Image Optimization, Part 4: Progressive JPEG...Hot or Not?