IPS 4.4: Turbo charging loading speeds

Jimmy · Nov 17, 2018

4.4: Turbo charging loading speeds

All the letters
When we first implemented the letter avatars in 4.3, we discussed whether to use CSS styling or use an image.

We decided to go with an image as it was more stable over lots of different devices, including email.

We've revisited this in 4.4, and switched the letter avatars to SVG, which are much faster to render now that the browser doesn't have to load the image files.

Other performance improvements
We've taken a pass at most areas with an eye for performance, here is a list of the most significant items we've improved.

Several converter background tasks have been improved, so they work on less data

Duplicate query for fetching clubs was removed in streams

Notifications / follower management has been improved

Member searches have been sped up (API, ACP live search, member list in ACP, mentions, etc.).

Stream performance has been improved

UTF8 conversions have been sped up

Elasticsearch has been sped up by using pre-compiled queries and parameterisation, as well as the removal of view filtering (and tracking)

HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload has been added

Several PHP-level performance improvements have been made

Implemented rel=noopener when links open a new window (which improves browser memory management)

Several other performance improvements for conversions were implemented that drastically reduce conversion time

IP address lookups now fetch IP address details from us en-masse instead of one request per address

Cache/data store management has been streamlined and centralised for efficiency

Many background tasks and the profile sync functionality have all been improved for performance

Brotli compression is now supported automatically if the server supports it

Redis encryption can now be disabled if desired, which improves performance

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eva2000 · Nov 17, 2018

Yeah saw that announcement

curious to see how IPB and 4.4 holds up to testing with Google PageSpeed Insights v5 Update ?

Revenge · Nov 18, 2018

HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload has been added

Brotli compression is now supported automatically if the server supports it

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Interesting.

Revenge · Nov 20, 2018

From the talk in ips site, im almost sure native pwa support with notification service will also come true with ips 4.4.

eva2000 · Nov 20, 2018

Revenge said: ↑

From the talk in ips site, im almost sure native pwa support with notification service will also come true with ips 4.4.
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Nice PWA is a must have for the future. Benefits I am seeing on my site and this forum's PWA conversion are very nice on first contentful paint and document loaded times at least

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