Thanks for this tool. I've tested it against the index page of phpwebgallery.net demo page. Of course what weights the most are the images (photo galleries are full of them) but I've also realized that we had nearly 30KB of CSS file (and I find it huge).

lol... i was looking into the css as well...  i feel once you break 7-8k your almost better using tables.

also I think you have a lot of flexibility which causes alot of the css files to become delicates.  I try and still design my pages for dialup since most the world is on that. 

And yes having an image gallery with 15-30 3k thumbs, or worse 15-30, 50/75k pics doesnt help much lol..

regarding the css -  i have always tried to simplify it by reducing the number of rules but it's not obvious

- one other thing I made on my site is put together most of the css into one single file - the browser does not start rendering until all css have been loaded and there are usually maximum 2 pending http requests per server - so it takes a long time ...

rvelices wrote:

one other thing I made on my site is put together most of the css into one single file - the browser does not start rendering until all css have been loaded and there are usually maximum 2 pending http requests per server - so it takes a long time ...

Don't you think we should have a single CSS file. I think we already have talked about this point, but considering performances is also important. In addition, I would say that it makes things a lot simpler when you come to customization.

z0rglub wrote:

Don't you think we should have a single CSS file. I think we already have talked about this point, but considering performances is also important. In addition, I would say that it makes things a lot simpler when you come to customization.

Yes but it will be a mess soon given the size and number of rules inside. Chrisaga did a great job in splitting them by "function".

VDigital wrote:

Yeh, I agree and it takes time to review each statement.
I reduced a lot in admin but I need more and more time to make the complete review.
I will maintain Chris logic every where I can.
But sometimes breaking his logic has been a good point on performance side.
8-)

I'm not sure if this is anything really worth thinking about but when I have looked at the internals of some plugins, I noticed a few files had extra whitespace that may impede overall speed of the gallery system.

Also to save space in the css file try to put common rules like this:  Its harder to read BUT it saves a lot of white space and white space adds up.

body{background-image:url('bgdesert.jpg');background-repeat: repeat}

I also noticed that you have added a lot of flexiblitly in the css's and that is where it gets builky.  Maybe move the main Css file to the theme, since most sites will use a theme to run their gallery.  This way there arent any dup's with names.

But keep up the good work.