[LINK] The online men's shed

[Tom Worthington]

On 12/02/15 15:57, Stephen Loosley wrote:

> A request for help ... http://www.theshedonline.org.au ... slow ...

A MobileOK check indicates the page is 4MB, which is a bit big: 
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/check?task=20150213000523142.mobile2&docAddr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theshedonline.org.au%2F

The problem is not the HTML, which is only 69KB. The CSS is a bit big at 
58KB (and has syntax errors). But the main problem is the images at 4MB 
are about ten times the size they need be (and there are a lot of images).

Given the demographic the men's shed is aimed at, it might also be a 
good idea to make the site accessible. The AChecker accessibly test 
reports 11 known problems and 386 potential problems: http://achecker.ca/

Also there are 24 HTML errors. It may not speed the page up, but fixing 
these couldn't hurt: 
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theshedonline.org.au%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

To see how to fix the problems follow the links from the test tools.

ps: I tried to run a Web Page Test, but the web server was so slow the 
test failed: http://www.webpagetest.org/


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