IRON HEART WEBSITE V5 - NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHING 18TH JANUARY
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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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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.
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I noticed a similar thing to @kkibbey23 , where I don't see the "See this discussed in forums" link. In this case, it's for the IHSW-31 on the desktop:
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This one has been fixed, if you spot any others in the future, ping an email to bugreport@ironheart.co.uk please and one of us will fix it asap.
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Hello IH crew,
great new website, congratulations. Quite like the new, fresh appearance.
One question I have in regards of the compare function.
In V4 it was possible to compare actual items (i.e. IH-NO-LOT) with extinct items (i.e. IHXB01).
The selection of extinct items seems to be no longer available in V5.
Is this how the new version is intended to work?Cheers
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I was looking at the 247 flannel, and when i wanted to route to the forum discussion page it took me https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15197.0 instead. It's related, but not quite.
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i retried and it was correct this time. Thanks Giles
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Looks like your on a cell phone, so here is how to do it on mobile
