[Announcement] Incoming website change for https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/

[RMerlin]

I'm finalizing an updated version of the project website. If in the coming days you get redirected to a different website still within the lostrealm.ca domain for a few hours, then do not be alarmed - it's normal. Just make sure you are still within my lostrealm.ca domain.

 

[RMerlin]

The new website is now live, at https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/ . If you are still redirected to asuswrt2 then please flush your browser cache.

Site gets a new CMS version, a new theme (responsive, so it will adapt to mobile browsers), and some spit and polish to the content.

I also enabled the automatic redirection from http to https, now that Let's Encrypt has shown to be reliable on my provider's hosting service.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks, I also noticed that the certificate for snbforums now shows a proper padlock (cloudfare).

Small typo on page About, been there for a while:
RT-AC68U (ncluding revisions C1 and E1)

 

[Makaveli]

I'm not often on your site merlin but it looks great and is blazing fast I guess because i'm in canada also. I don't think i've even seen pages come up so quickly when flipping through the various links on a site.

 

[heysoundude]

an Improvement! Good job.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks, I also noticed that the certificate for snbforums now shows a proper padlock (cloudfare).

The mixed content warning was caused by some of the images on the right side that were served over http. Tim seem to have fixed it a few months ago.

Just to be clear, I have nothing to do with SNBForum's site. I merely "rent" some forum space in this section here

Small typo on page About, been there for a while:
RT-AC68U (ncluding revisions C1 and E1)

Thanks, I'll fix it.

 

[RMerlin]

I'm not often on your site merlin but it looks great and is blazing fast I guess because i'm in canada also. I don't think i've even seen pages come up so quickly when flipping through the various links on a site.

This is probably due in large part to the fact that unlike most other website, I don't have Google Analytics, Ads, activity trackers and other off-site scripts loaded when accessing the page, and I have very little images to load. It means once you're connected to Funio's server (their datacenter is here in Montreal BTW), almost (if not all) the page content is immediately transferred to you over that connection.

Might be interesting someday to test it with Google's PageSpeed.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Just to be clear, I have nothing to do with SNBForum's site. I merely "rent" some forum space in this section here

It was just a remark, I know that were all guests here, hosted by @thiggins.

 

[Wutikorn]

The new website looks awesome! 10x better than before as it looks more modern. Nice update!

 

[o-l-a-v]

I like the new home page, great work!
One thing: You might look into compressing those PNG's if you want faster loading times. If you're on Windows you can losslessly compress PNG with PNGgauntlet or FileOptimizer.

I used FileOptimizer on three PNG's from your site:
- main_page.png, from 204 941 to 172 935 bytes
- main_page2_sm.png, from 60 504 to 53 629 bytes
- Asuswrt-Merlin-smaller.png, from 13 524 to 11 136 bytes
Not a huge difference, but it probably will speed things up.

Might be useful for other stuff too, like asuswrt-merlin GUI?

 

[RMerlin]

I like the new home page, great work!
One thing: You might look into compressing those PNG's if you want faster loading times. If you're on Windows you can losslessly compress PNG with PNGgauntlet or FileOptimizer.

According to Google's PageSpeed, the current performance is already fairly good, its only real complain is with two blocking CSS files. Kinda surprised the PNGs could still be optimized that much, I would have expected that at best a few bytes from meta data might be removeable. I'll see what's involved in recompressing all of them them once I'm done (there's one or two screenshots I might still replace).

Might be useful for other stuff too, like asuswrt-merlin GUI?

The majority of router images are so small, I doubt there's anything worth the effort to be saved there. Might be worth at some point testing with the largest files to see if there's anything worthwhile to be gained.

 

[o-l-a-v]

FileOptimizer is really easy to use, drag'n'drop. You can drop whole folders on it, it will optimize all supported files, and only replace the original ones if they turn out smaller.
It also supports recursive optimizing, like png inside zip. It's pretty sweet.

I downloaded your page with httrack, optimized all GIFs and PNGs. 19% space/ 0.25MB saved. That quickly adds up, 4000 page loads and you have 1 GB

 

[RMerlin]

Interesting thing - the color palette of some of the screenshots is actually closer to the real interface once optimized. Maybe the original screenshot had some incorrect color profile applied to them. Odd...