Posted by Anonymous on June 28, 2015 at 5:13pm
The inaugural Drupal North Regional Summit website was built by website sponsor Foster Interactive with Drupal 8. The website was produced on betas 6-10 with a multilingual component.
English: drupalnorth.org
French: drupalnorth.org/fr
The organizers wanted to make a bold statement about our region's talent and decided to launch the annual summit with a Drupal 8 theme and a multilingual Drupal 8 website.
A blog post about the experience will be available soon on drupalnorth.org.
Edit: just so this isn't missed (related to the 1st comment) – drupalnorth.org launched on March 24th; approximately 6 weeks before the next conference/camp's D8 site.
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Sorry guys, not first :)
Sorry guys, not first :) http://www.drupalkashmir.org/ was the first, we on DrupalCampCS had also web in D8 :) But you are probably the first with multilingual conference page ;-)
Ah, but a closer look reveals
Ah, but a closer look reveals the drupalnorth.org site launching on March 24th; approximately 6 weeks ahead of drupalcs.camp's launch on May 6th. Also, drupalkashmir.org's site isn't a conference site. ;)
But it's awesome to see those sites! Who will be #3, #4 and #5? :) It really shows the great ambition and desire we've got to get D8 released and into action.
Fight fight fight fight!!!!
Fight fight fight fight!!!! :P
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looks like really fasting loading pages.
looks like really fasting loading pages.
How is performance guys ? I checked in my mobile for me its gives really fast loading
Please share your thouts
Rakesh James
I don't want to speak on
I don't want to speak on behalf of our website sponsor too much but I can mention a few details. I'll ask them to chime in here though I know they're preparing a lengthy blog post about the site's development.
Caching is completely disabled. JS/CSS aggregation is enabled. As far as I know, the site was built without contrib modules.
I don't have much information about the infrastructure of the Canadian hosting sponsor, OPIN Software.
Regarding performance - using image styles could be reasonable
Hi, great to see another Drupal 8 site live.
How about using image styles? For example on http://drupalnorth.org/en/keynote-speakers - The small images of the speakers are really big (250 KB and up). So using image styles you could improve loading performance significantly, especially on mobile devices. And you can also save bandwidth for your server and your users.
Building the site was fun, and also challenging
rakesh.gectcr - I’m happy to hear it’s running fast for you.
We certainly needed to compromise with building the site in D8 (started in beta-6 launched in beta-10) which didn’t give us much room to optimize in the late phases of the project as we were still scrambling for new features. (Beta to beta - migrations were a nightmare)
To improve performance we used SVG for logos, and made sure the huge background image was loaded w/ media queries for different displays. So considering the huge number of images on the front page. We started with 4 sponsor logos and ended up 14 (The outreach folks did way better then I had expected!).
It's not bad 6s on 3g for first load and 1.2s once cached. I’d like the first load to 4s or less, but we didn’t hit the target.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150706_NP_14RK/
We're missing a number of items that should improve the performance.
As stefan.korn pointed out on http://drupalnorth.org/en/keynote-speakers, those inline images shouldn’t be so large, and should be image styles. We added the images inline in the content body fields at the last minute. And at the time D8 didn’t (and still doesn't?) have the image style support for the inline image editor. Had we realized this earlier, we could have make a fielded image and use the responsive image module for
<picture>images which would be much better performance. We had a number of different folks working on content so we should probably have simply posted a lower resolution image for the keynotes, but there were other fires to put out at the time so we missed it :)At the end of the day translation and accessibility fixed were prioritized over performance. I'm working on a write up of the experience and will post it this week. The short summary is that working in Drupal 8 was great - Except for the bugs, which will go away soon enough. As a front-end focused shop we are very happy with D8 and think drupalnorth.org was a solid site built on a tight budget.
Thanks for your detailed
Thanks for your detailed insights.
Regarding my comment on image styles, I did not recognize in first place that the images are inline images. So now I see you could not use image styles on these images.
Having done some work with Drupal 8 betas too, I can totally agree on the nightmare for beta to beta migrations.
I've written a case study about building DrupalNorth.org
If you're interested in some of the problems we can across, and learning about the awesome new D8 features we loved check out the case study!
http://www.fosterinteractive.com/blog/drupalnorth-org-tales-from-trenche...