While the forum was misbehaving over the past few days I did some digging around with HttpFox. One thing I noticed is that the Favicon -- http://forum.arduino.cc/favicon.ico -- is nearly 360KBytes. Why is it so huge? Is this a trojan for some platform?
fetch http://forum.arduino.cc/favicon.ico
favicon.ico 100% of 359 kB 307 kBps
file favicon.ico
favicon.ico: MS Windows icon resource - 14 icons, 48x48, 16-colors
gardner:
Why is it so huge?
The answer is in your post...
favicon.ico: MS Windows icon resource - 14 icons, 48x48, 16-colors
The largest is 256 x 256 x 32b.
Interestingly, Internet Explorer does not appear to use any of the icons while Firefox appears to extract what it needs.
Curious design decision to require each user to download over a quarter meg of trash.
I did not ask how it is so big, but why.
gardner:
[quote author=Coding Badly link=topic=198117.msg1462320#msg1462320 date=1384075415]
The answer is in your post...
I did not ask how it is so big, but why.
[/quote]As you've probably guessed from the recent re-design, the Arduino site itself would greatly benefit from the input of people who know how to run a website from a technical perspective. That icon should be about 887 bytes (around 400x smaller in byte size). But then, the site is also serving up over half a Mb of unnecessary bandwidth due to very easily fixable things like compression, expiry etc. See WebPageTest Test - WebPageTest Optimization Check Results for an example..