October 01, 2003
Ibocity cut in half
I just finished completing a new face lift for ibocity.com which involved a re-write of the each page from HTML 4.0 into XHTML 1.0/CSS code. The perl code was optimized by Garth Hill making it more streamline.
This is only phase one of the project but the preliminary savings are amazing. We did remove some useless features, but we also added some too, nonetheless ibocity 3.0 directory on disk weighed 877 MB, the new ibocity 4.0 directory on disk only weighs 259MB. These numbers may be skewed some, but you can notice a difference already in the load time of each page. Unfortantly you can’t get in to see the system with out a login in but, the HTML on the login page went from 8.7KB to 3.15KB.
Blake