[Koha-devel] combining and minification of javascript and css

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Dobrica Pavlinusic <dpavlin at rot13.org>wrote:

> I would like to address this one as part of performance work.
>
> We have existing bug for this, but I'm sending also this to list to get
> wider feedback.
>
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1918
>
> I found https://github.com/jshirley/Plack-Middleware-ComboLoader which
> got me pushed in right direction, but in the end I decided to implement
> Koha::Template::Plugin::Combine because it turned out that it's easier
> if we can use combining and minification together.
>
> Changes are available at:
>
>
> https://github.com/dpavlin/Koha/compare/dpavlin:plack...dpavlin:bug_1918-combine
>
> Minification alone doesn't buy us much:
>
> OPAC search:
> minify js 334974 -> 311553 93.01%
> minify css 148277 -> 133128 89.78%
>
> intranet search:
> minify js 382102 -> 362172 94.78%
> minify css 134754 -> 123771 91.85%
>
> But combining JS and CSS files together saves us round-trips to server:
>
> OPAC 32 -> 20 requests
> intranet 27 -> 13 requests
>
> I would love to hear your feedback on this.
>
>
This sounds like a discussion we had on irc the other day which resulted in
bug 7906.

I'll try to carve out a few moments to test this out on Monday.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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