No caching for static assets?

[daerid]

No idea how easy/hard it may be, but GH could definitely benefit from turning on basic HTTP caching (Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since / 304 Not Modified) on static assets.



Not sure I need to download the css/images/headers/etc every page I visit.

PS: It's a custom style sheet

[tbc]

is this made more complicated by https?

honest question.  really not sure.

noob dev ops -_-

[rowdy]

HTTPS just uses SSL to encrypt the traffic.  Once the page is initially received the browser decrypts it and decides which assets it can retrieve from the local cache, and which ones it needs to fetch from the server.

[tbc]

bump for admin attention?

[daerid]

so it's been almost 5 months.

This forum feels very, very sluggish compared to most sites, as all the static assets have to be downloaded for every page request. Not only does it make the site feel slower, it is wasting a ton of bandwidth, at potentially increased cost, completely unnecessarily.

It seems like it's a quick/easy fix for potentially a big win. From the SMF website:



This could be done in like, 5 minutes and make the site much more enjoyable all around, and save you guys on bandwidth costs.

[njbair]

Can't say I've ever noticed the site feeling sluggish. Which is definitely surprising of we're not doing any caching.

This seems like a no brainer to me.

[jwaz]

so it's been almost 5 months.

This forum feels very, very sluggish compared to most sites, as all the static assets have to be downloaded for every page request. Not only does it make the site feel slower, it is wasting a ton of bandwidth, at potentially increased cost, completely unnecessarily.

It seems like it's a quick/easy fix for potentially a big win. From the SMF website:

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This could be done in like, 5 minutes and make the site much more enjoyable all around, and save you guys on bandwidth costs.

Thanks for looking into a fix, we'll see what we can do.

[iMav]

Good suggestion. 

Caching of most static content should be happening now.  Let me know what you think.

[suicidal_orange]

Had a quick browse on my phone (3g) and there's a definite improvement

[suicidal_orange]

Not sure if it's possible or worth the effort but now that the header image doesn't appear gradually it's noticeable that my avatar just below it does, so I think it's still download on every page - can this be cached too?

[njbair]

I don't know if it's related, but attached images recently stopped displaying in Tapatalk. I just get these little broken icons.

[daerid]

hooray! Much much nicer, thanks iMav!