Optimize Portable Linux Apps Website

[hotlittlewhitedog]

Hi all 😄 👍

I would suggest you to optimize the load of Portable Linux Apps website, because it's too heavy (on mobile data...), not user friendly. I don't remember the exact max allowed size of a page but it should be less than 1MB.

Check following screenshot:

• Total download of 24 MB
• Load of 1.71 min
• 2100 pictures of 128x128 not useful

Some solutions:

• Personally, I would remove the pictures of the main page,
  let's say: 2100 apps x ~7000 bytes (there are some pictures > 11000 bytes) => 14 MB. (24 - 14 => 10MB)
• I would also suggest you to create subcategories for AppImage section.
• Put the logo in the app description page
• It's maybe also possible to compress the download page

Could be a good start and doesn't ask too much effort.

[ivan-hc]

I need an expert of GitHub Pages for this.

I don't know how to handle them, I'm a total newbie here.

If you know how to configure the site in a way that the pictures will not be loaded on mobile view, let me know. Maybe something to add here https://github.com/Portable-Linux-Apps/Portable-Linux-Apps.github.io/blob/main/_config.yml or here https://github.com/Portable-Linux-Apps/Portable-Linux-Apps.github.io/tree/main/assets/css ...but again, I'm not an expert.

Please open an issue or a PR at https://github.com/Portable-Linux-Apps/Portable-Linux-Apps.github.io next time, it would be helpful for those that want to help me mprove the site.

Thanks for reporting it.

I'll close but pin this in the meantime.

[hotlittlewhitedog]

OK 👍 I installed Ruby & compiled the site but it's not the last version of Ruby (on AntiX), got some errors and the server doesn't start. I install another machine and will try again... 😄

[ivan-hc]

thank you very much