Optimize web site for pagespeed

[julianharty]

The site isn't optimized for web or mobile web browsers. Doing so can improve the performance and reduce the amount of data sent over the network - particularly useful for users using mobile (cell phone) networks.

The tool doesn't login to the site, however since you're using shared resources, hopefully the changes and improvements you make can pervade the entire site.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fallready-d.azurewebsites.net%2FVolunteers%2FDashboard

[mattferderer]

I would be glad to jump in to this project & help out with this task. Most of those issues look like they have to do with css & js not being merged, minified & cached.

It looks like there is a Gulp task that should take care of most of the merging & minification. Would it be okay to add the css & js that is being pulled from CDNs or do you prefer that to be pulled from a CDN instead?

I could add compression to the web.config file similar to HTML5 Boilerplate's suggested values https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-iis/blob/master/dotnet%204.5/MVC5/Web.config If this is acceptable, would you prefer these just be done in a web.release.config file?

You can also login to the site using Chrome or Firefox & run a similar Pagespeed plugin to test the pages inside the site.

[tonysurma]

ping @dpaquette for opinions on CDN vs not etc.

Thanks @mattferderer for jumping in. I am confident that both this particular issue and the site overall is not optimized for speed and size so taking a look at that and either fixing the issues or docing the issues for you/others to address would be a great contribution