Resource hog

  • Trenton Talbot

    (@ttalbot)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    It certainly does what is says on a tin, and does it very well. My site looks terrific, thanks Jordy!

    Now, why not 5 stars?… I run 25 plugins on my website, some of them are really heavy. But according to P3 Profiler, the Retina2x accounts to 27% of the site’s load time, leaving an ultra high-res Revolution Slider (4%) and even Gravity Forms (16%) way behind.

    Fortunately, I use a fast dedicated server, so TTFB and overall page speed is good, but if you’re on a shared hosting, you might experience some Retina-related slowness (ask your ophthalmologist for prescription)).

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Well, you load images that have 4x times more pixels, isn’t it normal that performance goes down? That’s not related to the plugin, that’s related to your images.

    If you talk about the HTML rendering/rewriting (which it is), then this doesn’t matter because it only happen one time, then it’s cached. Everything is super fast and there is nothing that slows you website down if you have standard (any kind of) HTML caching. I did my best and you can check the code if you think it’s possible to make it faster.

    Besides, isn’t it normal that my plugin takes more time? It analyses your HTML and rewrites your image tag, checking if the retina images exist, carefully. Revolution Slider and Gravity Forms does nothing in comparison, just insert themselves somewhere, one time in the page 😉

    I am fine with your comment but it’s just not really right. Yes, the air-con in your car requires more juice than the radio, but why comparing them?

    You can also switch the retina method to “retinajs” and the plugin will worth 5 stars because it will be faster than Revolution Slider this way 😉 Try it.

    More seriously, remove P3 profiler. For real testing, use webpagetest.org (I am sure you know it) and look attentively at the results in “Repeat View”. Your visitors and the Google Bot are only impacted by this. Enable/disable plugins and test the differences. The retina plugin will not change anything.

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