IRON HEART WEBSITE V5 - NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHING 18TH JANUARY
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The new look is awesome. Here are some things I've noticed from using the website on desktop and mobile:
I'm still not seeing the number of items in stock when viewing products.
This is due to be resolved in the next hour or two, this is another USA specific bug
This is now live - please check in an incognito window (cmd + shift + N on google chrome for eg) or clear your cache first to ensure up to date visuals
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The only issue that I've been having is that the the forum address that I used to use is:
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum
But that redirects me to the IH website. I now need to add the trailing backslash.
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/
In contrast, if I miss the backslash for the outlet, it redirects me correctly. So:
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/outlet
Goes to:
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/outlet/
I'd suggest adding a similar redirect to the forum, but it's not a major problem.
Overall, I'm liking the new site. I haven't tried to buy anything yet, though.
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In the outlet, a few items are listed with multiple colours. For example.
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/outlet/ih-801.html
The colour indicator doesn't show which is selected when on my mobile device. (Pixel 3XL, running Chrome.) They're also quite small, making it hard to select them.
I'd suggest spacing the colour circles a bit wider, and adding a border or some other indicator to show which is selected.
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Couple things:
My girlfriend wanted to give me a gift card via Iron Heart America for our anniversary today but every time she added the item to the cart the page refreshed with nothing in it. She gave up and gave me an IOU.
After receiving the news of this, I started looking at things to buy. Now, the item quantity appears when I select a size, but if I go back and forth between sizes the count glitches out and stays on a number between 1 and 9+. For reference, I was looking at the 21oz OD 666 when this happened. This stood out to me because I've been coveting this jeans and before the update most sizes were sold out but the bug is showing every size in stock.
This is good in a way because I don't really know what I want to buy, but definitely not good for customers.
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added the item to the cart the page refreshed with nothing in it.
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This stood out to me because I've been coveting this jeans and before the update most sizes were sold out but the bug is showing every size in stock.
Looking at the gift card voucher now.
IH-666S-21OD quantities are correct on the website, with all sizes being available.
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Couple things:
My girlfriend wanted to give me a gift card via Iron Heart America for our anniversary today but every time she added the item to the cart the page refreshed with nothing in it. She gave up and gave me an IOU.
This is a new bug, which has been passed on - thank you
After receiving the news of this, I started looking at things to buy. Now, the item quantity appears when I select a size, but if I go back and forth between sizes the count glitches out and stays on a number between 1 and 9+. For reference, I was looking at the 21oz OD 666 when this happened. This stood out to me because I've been coveting this jeans and before the update most sizes were sold out but the bug is showing every size in stock.
We do have stock in all sizes of the 666S-21od - see below.
In terms of the speed of the numbers updating under the combination selected, overall the site speed and performance are a little lower than usual because of the volume of ongoing work, once all the major kinks are ironed out the performance should be back to full speed and this bug wont persist
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Thanks guys. After reading this I had a chat with graham but I fall between sizes on that model anyways. I’ll continue to report issues as I try to figure out what to buy, hah!
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The only issue that I've been having is that the the forum address that I used to use is:
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum
But that redirects me to the IH website. I now need to add the trailing backslash.
Fixed
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Couple things:
My girlfriend wanted to give me a gift card via Iron Heart America for our anniversary today but every time she added the item to the cart the page refreshed with nothing in it. She gave up and gave me an IOU.
This is a new bug, which has been passed on - thank you
Fixed
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In the outlet, a few items are listed with multiple colours. For example.
https://www.ironheart.co.uk/outlet/ih-801.html
The colour indicator doesn't show which is selected when on my mobile device. (Pixel 3XL, running Chrome.) They're also quite small, making it hard to select them.
I'd suggest spacing the colour circles a bit wider, and adding a border or some other indicator to show which is selected.
This is fixed now too, though not perfect, the selection is circled in dark grey (see colour brown here).
We have asked them to tweak to a clearer indicator
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Warning Geek Mode
Firstly, great to see the site making extensive use of a CDN - Bravo! Loads fast over here. However, it appears the CDN setup was not set to all locations, which is making content slower to load in places like 'straya ;).
TLDR, a setting should be changed in AWS CloudFront to make the site load around 1.5seconds faster over this way. This change will likely cost you $1-2 a month and as they say speed matters with websites. Imagine you'll shave more than 1.5seconds off the photo heavy pages… Details below in full with screenshot of what needs to change.. Feel free to get your folks to chat to me if you'd like, you know how to reach me :).
When I look at where the assets are hosted, they are coming from LAX.
curl -I -X -H https://www.ironheart.co.uk/themes/ironheart-v5/assets/cache/theme-f6aeb9165.css |grep cf-pop x-amz-cf-pop: LAX3-C3Doing a look up on the IP's given, they are indeed all in the US - I'm in Australia!
$ dig ironheart.co.uk +short [23:39:09] 99.84.198.81 99.84.198.122 99.84.198.55 99.84.198.56 $ host 99.84.198.122 [23:40:02] 122.198.84.99.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server-99-84-198-122.lax3.r.cloudfront.net.Pinging it, confirms the time taken is going to the US
$ ping 99.84.198.122 [23:23:58] PING 99.84.198.122 (99.84.198.122): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 99.84.198.122: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=178.607 msThis is not a CloudFront issue in general, I tested on another CloudFront bucket that is enabled in all regions;
curl -I -X -H https://d1og4zi53x5hwg.cloudfront.net |grep X-Amz-Cf-Pop: SYD1-C2 $ dig d1og4zi53x5hwg.cloudfront.net +short [23:42:31] 13.224.169.84 13.224.169.22 13.224.169.136 13.224.169.122 $ host 13.224.169.84 [23:42:33] 84.169.224.13.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer server-13-224-169-84.syd1.r.cloudfront.net. $ ping 13.224.169.84 [23:42:35] PING 13.224.169.84 (13.224.169.84): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 13.224.169.84: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=16.584 ms ^CAs you can see, that's an order of magnitude faster.
Fix is in AWS, head to CloudFront, edit the distribution, and enable this below. I suspect it's set for US/EU only at the moment. It's working well, but it could be around 1.5seconds faster to load the home page by my tests.. every second counts..
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Warning Geek Mode
thank you. You helped us so much before with AWS etc, I'm sorry we dropped the ball here. We'll get onto it….
You've done very well here - this is a minor (but impactful) tweak in the scheme of things. The architecture of the site performance/caching has all been well built, literal single drop down change here - I suspect an oversight is all. Way to go.
