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[Performance] White flash when clicking links
xVal
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Whenever I click on any links I get a 1 second white flash before I arrive to the next page.
This didn't happen before, it's a new thing. It's pretty annoying and I'm not sure what's causing it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Vanilla Version: 2.0.18.8
Theme: Dark Mist
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I've had this across all websites. I think it relates to the latest Google Chrome update. Is that the browser you're using?
Yes, it mainly happens in Chrome. Firefox is not an exception though, as it sometimes occurs there too.
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Browsers render a blank window before any content is loaded, no?
Open your Dev tools and check out the timing on your network tab. It may just be a slow host.
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event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead. jquery.js?v=2.0.18.8:17
27 requests | 13.6KB transferred | 1.18s (load: 754ms, DomContentLoaded: 754ms)
16022.8 days after second refresh
If you are viewing the site with a clean cache, you will see white up to 1.18 seconds. You should only see it for about 754ms the first time you view the site. Subsequent clicks should show up much faster.
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Yeah, so how do I go about lowering that value to something that isn't so annoying?
Wow! Enabled 'Page Speed' plugin and it's working now, let's see for how long.
Optimize the bandwidth path, increase server resources, reduce page load requests. Pretty standard web dev tasks. You can click on the audits tab of your developer tools in Chrome for more specific information.
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I used chrome's dev tools and found a ton of issues that need fixing. Where do I learn how to plug all those performance leaks? Should I just edit every page manually?
We run our forum on a dedi and use Google's mod_pagespeed in order to boost page speed. From our current tests we don't seem to have any issues with vanilla, though I discourage anyone who cannot debug a web server (or has anyone on hand to do so) from using this module. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module
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I'm pretty much lost.
Could someone at least point me in the right direction? Any resources/learning material would be very appreciated. How do I get better at this and where do I start?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=web+performance+best+practices&l=1
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Check with your host to see if they support CloudFlare, which is a free CDN.
It helped me to significantly lower page load speeds.
@whu606 Yes, I've enabled CloudFlare but no change whatsoever.
I reinstalled a fresh Vanilla 2.0.18.8, so no plugins, default theme.. guess what.. the flash is still there! Why? I'm going crazy.
I've optimized it by enabling output compression (Content-Encoding: gzip) in .htaccess and nothing has changed. pff
Installed phpBB & SMF and there are no issues whatsoever. It only happens with Vanilla. I don't get it, really. Can anyone help?