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gijs007PM
#1
Optimizing banners
Apr 23, 2012 4:27 PM
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 8
Hi,

I'm using the gametracker banners for my halo servers, however they tend to load slowly...

To fix this you could cache some of its content, this is an example of a teamspeak 3 banner:

The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:

http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/components/html0/gt_icon.gif (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/components/html0/online.gif (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/flags/nl.gif (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/game_icons/ts3.png (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/16x16_channel_green.png (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/16x16_player_off.png (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_item.gif (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_last.gif (expiration not specified)
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_outer.gif (expiration not specified)
http://www.gametracker.com/images/game_icons/ts3.png (expiration not specified)

Combine images into CSS sprites:
The following images served from gametracker.com should be combined into as few images as possible using CSS sprites.

http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/components/html0/gt_icon.gif
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/components/html0/online.gif
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/flags/nl.gif
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/game_icons/ts3.png
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/16x16_channel_green.png
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/16x16_player_off.png
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_item.gif
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_last.gif
http://cache.www.gametracker.com/images/server_info/vs_tree_outer.gif
http://www.gametracker.com/images/game_icons/ts3.png


If you would do this for all types of banners it would save a lot of bandwidth on your side and would make websites that use these banners load a lot quicker.

This is important because google rates your website better if it loads quicker.

I hope you will improve this in the near future:D
iraqiboy90PM
#2
Feb 28, 2013 9:46 AM
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 5
Extremely Old thread, but still nothing has been made?!
gijs007PM
#3
Feb 28, 2013 9:54 AM
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 8
iraqiboy90 wrote:
Extremely Old thread, but still nothing has been made?!

Nope, they still didn't do anything with my suggestion
burnPM
#4
Feb 28, 2013 10:51 AM
GAMETRACKER ADMIN Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 5557
It wouldn't really have much of an impact, but since it is still in the Bug Reports forum it is still on the todo list.
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