Timeline for Reducing the weight of our footer
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| Dec 17, 2021 at 9:05 | comment | added | tripleee | Possibly related bug meta.stackexchange.com/questions/374161/… | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 16:46 | history | edited | CatijaStaff |
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| Dec 13, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | J... | Wow, no motivation to make real functional changes to the site to improve usability but all the time in the world for busywork pet projects like overhauling the footer? Seriously - it's at the bottom of the page. Who cares how much space it takes up? You don't go down there unless you have a reason anyway. | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 9:56 | answer | added | Ian W | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 8:33 | answer | added | Izzy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 8, 2021 at 7:41 | answer | added | Adam Burke | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 11:57 | answer | added | αλεχολυτ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 0:43 | answer | added | Jim Grisham | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 1, 2021 at 6:56 | answer | added | αλεχολυτ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 21:26 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | @Vikki Because that is not more simple than deleting a ton of markup and JS. I prefer to not add any JS to defer the loading, whether on scroll or whatever. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 4:22 | comment | added | Vikki | @AaronShekey: Why not simply not download the footer until and unless you scroll that far down? | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 23:06 | comment | added | rooby | @Milliways it would be a bit unusual if the footer wasn't off the page, it is the footer after all. Why would users not know a footer exists, unless they're new to browsing the internet? Keep in mind that footer navigation is not intended to be the primary form of navigation, it's just for some potentially useful tertiary links. | |
| Nov 22, 2021 at 15:09 | comment | added | user2357112 | "We looked at some data and found that these links aren’t used very often. Those categories are clicked about 600 times a day. Individual sites are about 200." - those numbers are way higher than I expected. | |
| Nov 22, 2021 at 6:13 | answer | added | Steve Bennett | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 20, 2021 at 4:49 | comment | added | Mazura | What's the point of this being written down? Crowd sourcing for bugs? I use footers for one thing about once a year: name, copyright, and date of questionable websites, which this is not, and it only means something if it's not there. | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 23:42 | comment | added | Milliways | Still way too BIG (and hidden off the page) - most new users don't even know it is there. Far better would be ONE link "Links" at the top. | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 20:21 | answer | added | pkamb | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 19:11 | comment | added | Luuklag | @AaronShekey the footer loads quick enough. Its the JS that is often too slow, making me visit my global inbox instead of the dropdown I wan't to see (on my phone, on good WiFi) | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 15:40 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | @DrewReese We ripped out hundreds of links and reduced the page weight. Page weight means the amount of stuff you have to download for a footer you jokingly weren't aware was down there. Less stuff to download means the site loads faster, especially on your phone. | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 8:51 | answer | added | Luuklag | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 6:27 | comment | added | TylerH | @user1271772 Yes, many websites use gzip when sending data requests. Google 'gzip content encoding' for more info if you are interested (it is not just a form of file zipping like .zip or .rar) | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 4:42 | comment | added | user1271772 | What is meant by "Ripping out those links saves about 4 KB of data per request even after gzip. It's a win-win!" ? gzip is being used for browsing a website? | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 0:40 | answer | added | bad_coder | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 22:58 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Yes, it reads as if it hasn't been rolled out yet (something only in the planning stages). Perhaps add a statement to that effect (e.g., "This was rolled out network wide at 1400 hours UTC 18th November 2021")? | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 22:57 | comment | added | Drew Reese | There's a page footer? 😛 Looking at before/after it doesn't appear as though there was any size reduction, the given premise being "our footer is a bit bigger than it ought to be". Visually it looks just as cluttered. Not sure what the improvement is here. | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 22:12 | comment | added | Cody Gray | Thanks ,@AaronShekey; that totally makes sense. Definitely best to do things in stages as they are ready for prime-time. I was just looking at the "After" screenshot Vanny showed, and noting the differences compared to the "Before" screenshot. However, after noticing this is already live, I see that both the "Mobile" and "Disable Responsiveness" links are still there, so this was just a red herring created by the test environment used to take the screenshot. | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 22:07 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | @CodyGray Mobile and Disable Responsiveness are going away in due time. We didn't want to remove those before our mobile deprecation work is done. | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 21:49 | answer | added | bobble | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 21:19 | comment | added | Luuklag | Why not group together the other categories as well. I can't imagine they are used all that often. We could just make company a category that expands as well. | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 21:05 | comment | added | bad_coder | @Laurel last time I logged out was before registering my account... | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 20:52 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor | timeline score: 47 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 20:36 | history | edited | V2BlastStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 20:11 | comment | added | Laurel | Re #5: There is no right menu in the top bar for anonymous users on Stack Overflow. (I find it annoying because I sometimes browse logged out.) | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 20:07 | answer | added | Dr. Wulfbayne | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 19:24 | comment | added | Cody Gray | If the mobile views are being deprecated, why is "Mobile" still there in the "After" view, but "Disable Responsiveness" missing? That seems precisely backwards to me. Also, I suppose you are deprecating the "Salary Calculator"? | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:54 | history | edited | bad_coder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:45 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:44 | answer | added | bobble | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:39 | history | edited | CharlotteStaffMod |
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:36 | answer | added | Mast | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:36 | history | edited | CharlotteStaffMod |
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 18:25 | history | asked | CharlotteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |