http://cored.org/

Little did I know that my rss feed was not valid. It took me by surprise that after all these years it might not have been valid after all. But then again, this piece of code was written about 5 years ago.

The entire site's components uncompressed weigh in at 185kb. Even if this includes, JQuery, XHTML/CSS and Static Images, that is a lot for the browser to download.

Before GZIP compression: 185KB.
After enabling GZIP compression: 68KB.

In theory the browser is downloading the 185KB's worth of components as if it were approx. 63% less data, while at the same time downloading every bite.

Reading the enlightenment.org mailing lists there are talks about wiping out dozens of projects that either do not compile any more or that simply, no one cares about. This is fine from a developers perspective, why keep junk around. What bothers me is that within these projects, is a project called elicit.

Elicit is a screen zoomer / color picker written with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

It sucks to see quality being thrown out the window.

One of the first things that I did to lower the time it takes for the browser to download the site's components was to minify Javascript and CSS. On top of this, I have optimized static images and photos using pngcrush. On average, static images weigh 33% less.

Parallel Downloads: I am hosting all my HTML, CSS and JQuery from cored.org and photos and static images on static.cored.org.

According to firebug's analyzer, the site's analysis and performance jumped from 77 out of 100 to 83 using these three simple techniques. After using GZIP compression and Leverage browser caching, 93 out of 100.

I really needed to re-design the website, so after a long gap, here it is. Still very much a work in progress, but feel free to explore and look around. Works is currently under construction and will be accessible in the weeks to come. Comments are welcomed.

Recently I caught up with with mard3, after nine years. He is one of my earliest influences when it comes to typography and street art, back when we used to skateboard together, ca. 1999.

If you came here looking for the Edje project, visit: http://code.google.com/p/detour/ for more information.

http://cored.org/ is dressed in black.