BlizzUniverse

[Geckat]

Alright. I don't really approve of advertising normally, but the friend who's put the work into making it has asked me to do it anyway, and it is a brand new site that's had a lot of time put into making it. I'm only going to post it here, in the Debriefing Room, because it would seem like spam if I posted it in all the other Blizzard Gaming forums too, and this forum is viewed the most out of the Blizzard ones.

It's called BlizzardUniverse (http://www.blizzarduniverse.com/), and it's geared towards all things Blizzard, not just StarCraft (in case you hadn't inferred that from the name), although it encompasses quite a lot on each game that Blizz has put out. It's mostly finished now, but like most community sites it will grow and physically improve with the number of members it has, so check it out if you've got time. I'd appreciate it.

[Aquarian]

It's too heavily coded.Took me 2 minutes just to load the homepage.

[loads_of_fun]

It's too heavily coded.Took me 2 minutes just to load the homepage.
it took me about 2 seconds
and i'm uesing am emachine
with a 433Ghz prossor and
128 or less memory running ME

note: it had windows 95 on it
befor i upgraded it

[Ahzz]

cpu speed doesn't count much. It's more of your connection. Maybe aquarian has a 8 kb modem or something :P

[loads_of_fun]

well i have DSL that
could be big factor

[The_Maker]

Eh, its interesting.. but it looks like another SClegacy or Infoceptor clone to me =/

[Glad_2_bestoned]

heh took a hella long time for the page to load.

[Nuts]

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php

Analysis and Recommendations

* TOTAL_HTML - Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 1 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization.
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* TOTAL_SCRIPT - Congratulations, the total number of external script files on this page is 2 . External scripts are less reliably cached than CSS files so consider combining scripts into one, or even embedding them into high-traffic pages.
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Convert JPG's to GIF's
Reduce total number of graphics

Those two things will speed up load times immensely.

[Aquarian]

cpu speed doesn't count much. It's more of your connection. Maybe aquarian has a 8 kb modem or something :P

WTF?I'm using DSL.

[Geckat]

DSL is bad. Anyhoo, I have a 56k dialup, and what I do is I load the page until the word Home comes up on the page (about ten sec), and then refresh. The whole page comes up in about thirty, which is pretty fast considering how much coding this guy put into it.

And yeah, he did look at SCLegacy and Blizzforums for his stuff. I told him to actually try and break the mold, but he decided he wants something to attract people to his site. Funny, how I had to help ;) .

But anyways, it is a good site. The forum is starting to come along a bit, and I was hoping some people from WB could come and give us a jump-start.