#Logicworks 5 paint skin#
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Time to First Byte went from a staggering 2.2 seconds to about 45ms. So I copied the website to our server as a test bed and got to work.ДЄfter numerous hours of bug fixes, recoding queries, disabling Redis and opting for higher innodb cache (more on that later), image optimization, js/css/html combining, render-unblocking and minification, lazyloading images tweaking Magento to work with PHP7, installing OpCache and setting up basic htaccess optimizations, we smash the loading time down to 1.2 seconds total, and most of that time was for external JavaScript plugins deemed 'necessary'. But we told them it would get done on our time, not theirs.

But we agreed on the price only because of a long relationship and because they have some referrals they got us in the door with. The client wanted this all done in a week for less than $500. There were several other issues, but those 4 should be enough to paint a good picture. The home page alone was 22MB just from images. I asked him why he didn't just call a few join queries, and he had no idea what I was talking about.Д¤.) Almost every image on the website was a. He said this was so he could load products from several different categories and custom tables to show on the page.

#Logicworks 5 paint skin#

Templates and skin assets are being called from across 12 different locations on the server, making tracking down and finding a snippet to fix downright annoying.Д«ut not only that, the home page itself had 83 custom database queries to load the products on the page. This wasn't the worst coding I've seen, but it was far from acceptable. Just Redis.ДЈ.) Now to say the website was poorly coded was an understatement. No merged CSS/JS, no use of a CDN, no image optimization, no gzip, no expires rules. I usually try to avoid Magento because of all the headaches that come with it, but I figured 'sure, why not?' I mean, he built the website less than a year ago, so how bad can it really be? Well.let's see how fast you all can facepalm:ДЎ.) The website was built brand new on Magento 1.9.2.4.what? I mean, if this were built a few years back, that would be a different story, but building a fresh Magento website in 2017 in 1.x? I asked him why he did that.his answer absolutely floored me: 'because PHP 5.5 was the best choice at the time for speed and performance.' What?!Дў.) The ONLY optimization done on the website was Redis cache being enabled. This guy claims he spent 'months' trying to figure out why the website couldn't load faster than 7 seconds at best, and his employer is demanding a resolution so he stops losing conversions. A master conjurer capable of weaving mystical time-altering spells to inexplicably improve the performance. Maybe he thought 'Redis' was the name of a magical sorcerer living in the server.

So I get called in to a job improving the performance of a Magento site (and let's just say I have no love for Magento for a number of reasons) because this 'developer' enabled Redis and expected everything to be lightning fast. I absolutely HATE 'web developers' who call you in to fix their FooBar'd mess, yet can't stop themselves from dictating what you should and shouldn't do, especially when they have no idea what they're doing. Stop fucking screaming how your bloated swiss-army-knife text editor is soooo much better than a purpose-built IDE, if it fails to draw something red and obnoxious around your fuck ups. Don't fucking rant about your tabs and spaces. You're bitching about the medium of your paint, about the hardness of the marble - when you should be lamenting the absence of your muse or the struggle to capture the essence of elegance in your work.ДЇix your fucking mindset, and fix your fucking tools. You're struggling with semicolons, misplaced braces or wrongly spelled keywords. You're arguing about indentation or getting annoyed by a project with braces on the same line as the method name.

#Logicworks 5 paint code#

You should strive to write code like a Michelangelo, not like a house painter. Dear people who complain about spending a whole night to find a tiny syntax error Every time I read one of your rants, I feel like a part of me dies.ДЄs a developer, your job is to create elegant optimized rivers of data, to puzzle with interesting algorithmic problems, to craft beautiful mappings from user input to computer storage and back.