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For ex somebody askign "Best way to optimize site speed for a large traffic website?" and the comments: - I took a look at the site before I commented. Dollars
by lazyant 13y ago
For ex somebody askign "Best way to optimize site speed for a large traffic website?" and the comments:
- I took a look at the site before I commented. Dollars to donuts the code is a nightmare pile of spaghetti "written" by people who have never even heard of design patterns.
- Probably to scrap the whole thing and start over with a decent CMS.
Funny thing, besides the curtness, is that he's most likely not even technically correct, since performance issues on web sites are rarely due to the choice of CMS or in its code.
- danbruc 13y agolarge traffic website and 500-1000 visits minimum a day don't match to begin with. I am not sure if visits means request or visitors but neither one request every 90 seconds nor one visitor every 90 seconds should do any harm to any server. I did not look into the page but I have no problem to imagine that this comments actually reflect the best option. I don't even consider the wording especially impolite. Sometimes reality is tough.
- lazyant 13y agoIf we don't know what's really wrong with a website it's no good to answer "use another CMS", it can be wrong and it's not helpful at best, it would be better to give some pointers on where to start figuring out what's wrong. Also the pompous "design patterns" comment; a lot (30% ?) of web sites in the Internet run on spaghetti code (Wordpress, Drupal) and many are fine, if I had to I'd bet the CMS and its code is not the problem.
- danbruc 13y agoHe said in a comment that he looked at the code so I assume he really figured out that the thing is build on top of BoonEx Dolphin Smart Community Builder, probably a version from around 2007, and looked at it. But lets stop here, we are assuming way to much.