[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9286: Using HTML <base> or links from site root can trim down page size

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#9286: Using HTML <base> or links from site root can trim down page size
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 Reporter:  jidanni       |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  lowest        |   Milestone:           
Component:  Optimization  |     Version:  2.7.1    
 Severity:  trivial       |    Keywords:           
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 Gentlemen, I have achieved big savings in the sizes of many pages by
 using the same techniques MediaWiki does, mainly not repeating the
 whole site name over and over in each link.
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4

 Here's the Makefile I used
 {{{
 i=http://abj.jidanni.org
 j=$i/articles/index.php/
 big.html:
         wget $j -O $@
 from_root.html:big.html
         perl -pwle 's@$i@@g' $? >$@
 using_base.html:big.html
         perl -pwle 's@$j@@g;m@</head>@&&print "<base href=\"$j\" />"' $?
 >$@
 wc:big.html from_root.html using_base.html
         $@ -lc $?|sed /total$$/d
 }}}
 which gives
 {{{
 $ make wc
 wc -lc big.html from_root.html using_base.html|sed /total$/d
    81  8884 big.html
    81  7454 from_root.html
    82  6339 using_base.html
 }}}
 I would like to especially draw your attention to using_base.html,
 though a little bolder than MediaWiki by using <base>, we nonetheless
 have lopped off a whole quarter of the bytes of this already diet page
 (from my mom's blog, which I created.)

 Furthermore, we find we in fact leave the link to the <form> undisturbed,
 quelling some worries... Anyway, to actually get these savings, the
 core code would need to be enhanced (perhaps allowing using <base> as
 an option one can opt-out of), and not of course just running this
 Makefile.

 I checked in firefox, and even the feed URL works.

 Anyway, I hope you'll leave this on the back burner as a long term
 opimization idea.

 You must admit often we have complete grasp of many links and can make
 this optimization.

 If worried about <form>, <meta>, and feed links, they can be left as
 absolute links.

 My Makefile didn't especially put the <base> before all the <meta>s, but
 you could...

 OK, well say theme developers want to use <base>,
 but all the common tags probably have no switch one can throw just once
 somewhere to get them all not to still use absolute URLs.

 Well OK, maybe putting a homebrew hook on bloginfo, but still no
 integrated approch available in the core...

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