Calibrating with PageSpeed / Lighthouse Prior to Release

[Times Enemy]

When I look at some of my sites with https://pagespeed.web.dev I see a common theme about items that I am very hesitant to fix as they are related to the files that are bundled as part of phpBB.

Sure, I am comfortable minifying the JavaScript and CSS here and there, but eliminating render-blocking resources, reducing unused javascript, avoiding chaining critical requests, main topic work, and so forth are just beyond my scope as an end-user.

My request to the phpBB Dev Team is that before a version is launched it be placed/installed on several separate (geographically) test servers and tested with tools such as Google PageSpeed and similar, and further modified to surpass resource tests.

This would provide a better product and would make the world a better place. We would all probably live an additional 0.523 seconds given the impact, and oh what a happier 0.523 seconds that would be.

[danieltj]

The phpBB cache system should help with load times to some degree but more could be done. The issue though is that refactoring the code base to appease the Lighthouse test would be a lot of work.

I’d suggest the first port of call is to create a ticket for the different tests you think the phpBB core should be passing and then someone might look into working on it.

You can create a ticket here if you want: https://tracker.phpbb.com/

[Mick]

I got a 99 overall without doing anything.

[nou nou]

Good things come to those who wait.

[nou nou]

Joking aside, my recent switch from shared hosting to VPS has been met with some very positive feedback

I've always seen it as a personal challenge to keep things running smoothly on a shared host while geeking out on custom features, but I have to admit that the difference is big. FTP upload especially is crazy fast compared to before.

My PageSpeed score may not be great, but my users love the site. Content is everything.

[P_I]

You can create a ticket here if you want: https://tracker.phpbb.com/

FWIW I filed [PHPBB-17094] Improve loading times by preloading web fonts - phpBB Tracker a while back.

[danieltj]

You can create a ticket here if you want: https://tracker.phpbb.com/

FWIW I filed [PHPBB-17094] Improve loading times by preloading web fonts - phpBB Tracker a while back.

Nice, I'll take a look

[Times Enemy]

The Tracker is another layer into the den, a den that I will have to schedule some time to enter and explore.

I did find this lingering:

at a minimum we should start including a minified version of the style
https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB-15405

[danieltj]

That ticket is very out of date.

If / when a new style is developed for 4.0 it's better off that the style has minified CSS to start with so that ticket should be closed as it's not really relevant anymore.