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Re: Website Feedback 2013

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Originally Posted by compboy07 View Post
Ok, looks to be fairly well designed, but there is one major problem: it's slow. I'm saying this with a high-end i5 and 20mbps internet.
I'm on similar specs & internet connection and the site is also quite slow.

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- Think about dropping the snow. It's making my pc lag a bit, and I'd hate to think of browsing it with a netbook.
I see that you're using DOM elements to make the snow. I would check if the browser hitting the page is modern and then render the snow with canvas/WebGL instead (from the looks of the jsnow.js code this wouldn't be very tricky to port and would be far more performant). On older browsers, cut it entirely.

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- Compress the images. The site logo is over a meg and downsamples rather badly on my screen. Resize that and the other large images (I'd try to go for 200K max, unless you need it high res, less for the logo). If you could fix one thing, fix this.
Yeah the site logo resolution is 3217x1851 displayed at a 180px width, this is bad for performance and battery life on mobile devices. The rest of the assets seem a pretty decent size though according to Chrome developer tools.


It appears you were trying to use WebGL and three.js with something already but I don't see any canvas tags on the page. The Task Manager in Chrome is reporting that your site is running at 20FPS but I'm not entirely sure what is animating (generally FPS is recorded in Chrome's Task Manager from calling requestAnimationFrame or the like, not sure what you're using).

Very appealing site though :3