Website has bad performance (Was "Increase compression on images!")

[GravisZro]

For love of God, please increase the compression on the websites images! 2MB for the front page background? SERIOUSLY?!

[dignifiedquire]

This is sadly not the only perf issue with the site: WebPagetest Results
and below Chrome performance audit:

[Kubuxu]

There are many places where performance can be improved but making the image alone not weight 3MB would greatly decreases loading time.

Or consider placing static assets outside of /ipns/ because it is not being cached. Placing them under /ipfs/ would mean that they are cached.

[daviddias]

We have come a long way :) http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170823_76_53e700e05b5b3d59f9db38cd857a31f0/

Seems we can speed things up a bid by using static asset caching http://www.webpagetest.org/result/170823_76_53e700e05b5b3d59f9db38cd857a31f0/1/performance_optimization/

@lgierth is this something you can do in the Gateway?

[Kubuxu]

I think with 561 KB the ipfs.io is small enough.

@diasdavid the caching is not simple as it is served from IPNS/DNS, we have plans (and in past there were PRs for it) for it but it is more complex than it looks because we can't get good DNS TTL.

[daviddias]

Ack! Thanks for bringing that up, @Kubuxu :)

Let's say that this is done then 🌟