New homepage under testing

Casey Ho pidgin at caseyho.com
Fri Dec 12 14:30:43 EST 2008


2008/12/12 Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>:
> Casey Ho wrote:
>> Just a heads up for everyone- I just pushed a new version of the
>> homepage to www.pidgin.im.
>>
>> It's currently being displayed as part of a Google Website Optimizer
>> test, so you may OR may not see this page.  More importantly, please
>> refrain from making any edits to index.php or home.php for the next
>> several days (in order to keep the test data accurate).  Of course,
>> comments/suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> I'd also like to thank Julian Harris, who designed the new layout on
>> behalf of the Google Website Optimizer team.  He'll be helping by
>> making improvements and also configuring the tests to see what works
>> and what doesn't.
> Very clever in showing the facebook logo in the screenshot.  Brand
> association for the win.
>
> ;-)
>
> FYI: YSlow reports to me that:
> 1, the page took 4.879s to load (first time) then 2.238s, then 4.033s,
> 2, that it has no Expires header on the css, js and image files
> (probably a server setting),
> 3, that gzip compression is not turned on for css and js files (again a
> server setting),
> 4, Page download size is: empty cache size is 127.2K verses 104.7K with
> a primed cache,
>
> Regards
> Phil Hannent

Should be fixed now, I tweaked the server config.

-Casey




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