Wing Chun PDX Redesign

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I have enabled eCommerce capabilities and a student only social platform. This test site is running off the Genesis theme. We found an area of concern about the test-site’s log on speed. I ran some tests below, and while I understand that the test sample is inadequate, feel strongly that Ray’s hosting service is slow. I have optimized the test-site on my host server.

Action List

  1. Install in Genesis Theme
  2. Design homepage
  3. Copy content
  4. WooComerce
  5. Buddypress
    1. Youzer
      1. Fix duplicate button issue
  6. Speed performance
    1. Migrate current test site on Ray’s server to my server: http://test.regroovemeditation.com
    2. Small sample load time tests
  7. Updated: http://www.testsite.wingchunpdx.com/online-documents/
  8. Updated http://test.regroovemeditation.com/ in preparation for Siteground migration
    1. Screaming Frog crawl on https://www.wingchunpdx.com/ for redirects
    2. Created Siteground account
    3. Point Domain (from Dreamhost) to Siteground
    4. Created all redirects for all 404 pages
  9. Added Social login.
  10. Helped client set up reCaptcha

Before

Test Site

Site Speed

These are the various sites for this experiment:

  1. https://www.wingchunpdx.com/
  2. http://www.testsite.wingchunpdx.com/
  3. http://test.regroovemeditation.com/

Test Results

  1. Homepage test of #1 VS 2
    1. #1:
      1. Pingdom
        1. Speed: 1.52s
        2. Performance grade: D 69%
        3. Page size: 2.0 mb
        4. Requests: 117
      2. Gtmetrix
        1. Speed: 4.4s
        2. Peformance: D 67%
        3. Page size: 2.39 mb
        4. Requests: 120
    2. #2:
      1. Pingdom
        1. Speed: 4.02s
        2. Performance grade: C72
        3. Page size: 991.9 kb
        4. Requests: 98
      2. Gtmetrix
        1. Speed: 4.4s
        2. Performance: A 93%
        3. Page size: 927 kb
        4. Requests: 96

Homepage test of #3

  1. Pingdom
    1. Speed: 1.96s
    2. Performance grade: C 74%
    3. Page size: 986.7 kb
    4. Requests: 97
  2. Gtmetrix
    1. Speed: 3.7s
    2. Peformance: B 89%
    3. Page size: 915 kb
    4. Requests: 96

Comments

  1. danma says

    I am waiting for the client to set up admin rights to the live site so that I can upgrade HTTP to HTTPS. I will have to set up a backup on the host server. I will also set up a migration plugin to get it ready for when we feel the test-site is ready.

    There was an issue with the Youzer plugin that improves the social media (BuddyPress) plugin, where it had duplicate buttons. After contacting tech support they sent me a CSS hack. Because I could have figured that out myself I was disappointed by their solution. I went ahead with the CSS hack (display: none) and fixed the duplicate buttons in the social pages.

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  3. danma says

    I had Ray register on the test-site I created on my Siteground hosted account and he reported a faster experience. He needs me to adjust online documents.

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  5. danma says

    Youzer CSS Hack:
    Enable Global CSS
    Enable styling code below:’
    .btn-group.select.yz-activity-privacy, .btn-group.select {display: none;}
    .youzer .thread-info a {text-decoration: underline;}

    Enable Activity CSS
    Enable styling code below:
    .btn-group.select.yz-activity-privacy, .btn-group.select {display: none;}

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