Page load speed issues

  • Resolved paulwebdesign

    (@paulwebdesign)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I really like this plugin, so I was disappointed to find out what a big impact this plugin has on page load speeds. I am using the latest, pretty dropdown with flags. As it loads each tiny map image individually, plus scripts/styling, it was adding 20+ requests to each page load, which resulted in more than 0.5 seconds per page load. In addition, some of the flags were identical, but saved as two separate names.

    Could you not save these as a sprite to reduce page load time?

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  • Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    Hi,

    You can use old version which does that.

    New versions are optimized for HTTP2, if you are using it, there will not be any problems.

    Thanks!

    Hi,

    We agree with “paulwebdesign.”

    In your next plugin revision, would it be possible to incorporate the use of CSS sprites for the flag images? This item alone is causing our website score and loading speed to drop dramatically (from 91 to 84). And yes, our website is configured to accept HTTP2.

    GTMetrix Message: “Combine images using CSS sprites” (GTranslate flags listed)

    Thank you!

    Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    Hi,

    HTTP2 standard is designed to avoid using sprites.

    If you would like to use sprites, please use the older version of the plugin which does that.

    Thanks!

    Great! What version number and where can we download it? Thanks!

    Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    You can try version 2.8.8: https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/gtranslate.2.8.8.zip

    But, I do not recommend doing that, it will not help to increase your page load time, it has bugs which are fixed in newer version. In any case without using GTranslate your page will load slightly faster than with it. It loads javascript libraries and flag images (all asynchronously without blocking the client). If you are using not all the flag images, the newer version will be faster, because when using stripe images, it loads all the flags even if you use few.

    I think GTMetrix doesn’t check if you use are using http/2 or not, it simply says that it is better to use stripes when it sees many images.

    Thanks!

    Thank you! One final look at this, if you don’t mind… In addition to omitting flags to help increase page loading speed, would you say that DNS Prefetching can help too?

    The Prefetch DNS URLs we have in mind are:

    //ajax.googleapis.com
    //fonts.googleapis.com
    //fonts.gstatic.com
    //google-analytics.com
    //translate.googleapis.com

    Above OK? Delete any? Add more?

    Thanks!

    Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    No need for that.

    Thanks!

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