[INVISION COMMUNITY] - Speed Improvements for Static Resources

[NewsBot]

Over the next few days you will see some improvements for static resources served on our network. Static resources are items like images, videos, JavaScript, CSS, and any other file attachments. These changes do not yet apply to your actual dynamic community pages. We will follow up with more updates on improvements we are making there.

 

Brotli Compression

When your browser supports it, all static files will use Brotli compression. Brotli offers a higher compression which often results in faster page load times.

 

WebP Images

WebP is an image compression format that offers higher compression for images which also results in faster load times. Most images will automatically be served as WebP with no input from you. We will be also adding an option to opt-out of WebP compression for your community if your focus is on high-quality images.

 

High Cache Hits

We can now server a greater percentage of request as a cache hit which means responses will be more geographically centered where you are. More speed improvements.

 

EU Restrictions

For clients choosing to host in our EU region, your static media is already stored in the EU. Our new changes will also mean that the network layer will also be restricted to EU locations. If you are interested in moving your Invision Community to our EU region, please contact us. There is no charge to move to EU on the Creator Pro package and above.

 

Better Analytics

In a future release, you will be able to see static media storage, bandwidth, and traffic statistics in your AdminCP.

 

Video Speed

Viewing videos will be greatly enhanced with chunked buffering allowing for more responsive skipping to different parts of videos and faster encoding of newly uploaded videos.

 

Enhanced Security

Files that require a signed URL for download will be more secure and allow for more reliable signing. We will also be enforcing the latest version of TLS for connections and implementing connection rate limiting to disallow scraping. Finally, we will be implementing bot control to block unfriendly bots or things like AI bots that do not provide direct SEO benefit.

 

 

We hope you enjoy these improvements. Look for more updates as we announce other back end improvements to speed, security, and stability.

 

[AWS]

All nice improvements. Looking forward to the future.