Patch 1.4

teebling · 2018-12-10T01:33:40Z

images/misc/barrens_alt_logo_trans.png Patch 1.4 10th December 2018 WoW: Classic Stats Calculatorimages/misc/1-4-calculator.gif Made a wow classic stats calculator tool using jQuery - you can pick a class then enter base stats like Stamina, Strength, Agility, Intellect and Spirit. As you type the base stats into the tool it displays benefits that you will receive - DPS increase, melee crit, spell crit, hit points, armour, dodge and other useful information. This will hopefully be useful for people who are comparing gear benefits and racial starting stats, among other things. Usability and design improvementsimages/misc/1-4-mobile.png On mobile design, increased font size significantly across the board On mobile design, changed height and size of many elements, and the design of major areas such as posts and profiles, to accommodate the new font-sizes and maximise horizontal screen real-estate On mobile design, list of topics now shows last poster, last post time + link to the post (instead of topic author + topic age which wasn't as useful) On desktop design, increased all body text, links and input font-sizes to 14px and made minor layout changes to accommodate this. You're welcome Syturio :razz: Class badges and customisation changesimages/misc/1-4-classes.png You can now choose a class as part of your profile customisation :) Your profile background is now visible in each post you make Your level, faction, class and profile background are now visible when viewing private messages On mobile, there simply isn't space to print the user's realm so this has been removed from the mobile display style Soft forum divisionsimages/misc/1-4-divisions.png Divided Guides section into Tools, PvP Guides, PvE Guides, Trade Guides and Reputation Guides You can only see PvP Guides, PvE Guides and Trade Guides currently as no topics exist for the other areas.... yet :P Divided Tech section into Art Resources and Code Resources Divided Info section into Information and Update Logs Loot secton renamed to 'Tech' to more accurately reflect content Search Engine Optimisationimages/misc/1-4-graph.png Updated robots.txt to block Semrush and Ahref spiders which are constantly trying to crawl the site and were eating up bandwidth Updated robots.txt to disallow crawling of noise pages Fixed various XML sitemap, robots and other indexing issues that caused rankings to fall steeply for two weeks Topic icons were annoyingly adding stuff to the actual html title of each topic, so I disabled this and then renamed all icon selections to something more descriptive of the icons themselves rather than general 'meta subjects' Reduced instances of the phrase 'WoW: Classic' outside of main content areas to lower potential keyword-stuffing algorthimic penalties from google Changed maximum horizontal resolution before transition from mobile to desktop styling from 620px to 700px to help google capture mobile site Also worth mentioning that the mobile font-size changes and render-width limit will mean that mobile usability algorithmic penalties will eventually no longer apply (once google has re-crawled whole site and verified 'fixes') Backend re-coding and performance gainsimages/misc/1-4-code.gif Due to the way phpBB is built natively, and the way extensions are loaded, every time a user visited the site made an http request for over twenty different CSS files on page load. This slows down the 'first-to-paint' time and therefore Google rankings too. What I have done is to combine all of these CSS into one master file and re-minified it Tried to implement .WEBP with fallback to .PNG, but the quality of the .WEBP I was getting after conversion really sucked, and sometimes the files were even bigger than my compressed originals! So I'm sticking with good old .PNG for now. Reimplemented versioning - now you (really) should not have to empty your cache to see any changes to any CSS, JS or HTML code. The browser is forced to re-download new versions of files regardless of cache settings. Recoded htaccess file to force HTTPS connection for all visitors, increased cache lifetime of all assets to 1 year, and localised external scripts so they can be cached server-side too. In total, the above changes, along with some of the SEO I did on this patch, have reduced the average page load time by 3 seconds. This might not sound like a lot but is actually a very significant improvement - research shows that the longer a page takes to load in seconds, the likelihood of the user 'bouncing' away from the page and never coming back increases exponentially. Pagespeed insight score has risen from 84 (average) to 95 (fast) for Desktop and from 53 (average) to 86 (3 points away from 'fast') on Mobile. Having 95 and 86 as pagespeed scores makes me so happy omg! Miscellaneous changesimages/misc/1-4-register.png Guest name and avatar now link to the new login page, which also has a splash image encouraging people to register an account When viewing a private message with ...

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Patch 1.4.2 deployed!

Posted : 28/12/2018 11:45 am

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