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Blue Host is the affordable hosting option to host your One Page website. Pricing starts at only $3.49/month where you can host your website with 100GB diskspace and bandwidth. Next tier up is $5.95/month where you can have unlimited sites, disk space and bandwidth. They are very web established and have a huge support team 24-7. Learn more about BlueHost.
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Below are 10 One Page websites we awarded “Most Loved” in May – hope you enjoy!
Stunning load transitions and gorgeous parallax scrolling effects in this One Pager promoting the forth Epicurrence event hosted by Dann Petty. These impressive effects seem to be the standard on all the Epicurrence One Pagers – this time built by Underbelly studio. There is so much to love in this Single Page website including the looping camp fire video but that form load transition and submit animation is just beautiful. Also check this behind-the-scenes snap of the device testing by Underbelly creative, Anthony Lagoon. Excellent result.
Awesome One Pager filled with excellent illustrations taking a fun look at the life of a cliché “creative”. The long scrolling Single Page website features a colorful background gradient that changes while you scroll (also the reason why we cut the long screenshot short as it’s difficult to capture). Really like how they offer the whole lot of content in the site as a downloadable hi-res infographic. Would love to see more of that in One Pagers. Also final shout out to this smart bit of content marketing in a One Pager by Format website builder. Good work!
Impressive infographic animations as you scroll through this One Pager for ‘Serio Verify’ – a sales optimization platform. There are lovely little touches throughout like the subtle website load transition, the features slide presentation within the device as you scroll and that slick unique off-canvas navigation menu load animation. This is the third Most Loved Award for the Danish Umwelt team!
Brazilian Creative Director Daniel Portuga is back in our Most Loved category with his newly redesigned One Page portfolio. The Single Page website features an interactive intro where you can actually draw over his face and then share it after with a custom generated link. Other features include a site color switcher that turns everything from dark grey to pink. Other features include an excellent showreel, tank game and a life lesson slider. There is so much character in this One Pager, excellent work Daniel.
Colorful One Pager with gorgeous illustrations announcing the date of the 2016 ‘An Interesting Day’ event hosted by Bakken & Bæck.
Excellent parallax scrolling effects and load transitions as you scroll through this One Pager announcing the wedding party of ‘Casey and Lyuba’. Lovely touch with the big floating letter elements (C + L) matching their first names. Rad to know it’s built on WordPress. All the best you two!
Slick One Pager with gorgeous transitions promoting ‘Sonikpass’ – a new “passwordless” security solution. This landing page actually links out to a TypeForm that gathers info about your business before you begin.
Long scrolling One Pager with beautiful imagery, typography and infographics promoting the upcoming London–Monaco charity cycle. (Our screenshot here is cropped as it’s super long)
Arty One Pager for French dev ‘Maxime Oulé’ featuring a unique hover-sensitive project list as well as a “draggable” 3D background. Awesome little feature with the tiled profile image of himself when hovering over his name. Also lovely touch with the custom preloader and Ascii signature using his personal emblem.
Stunning One Pager for ‘Skylark’ – a series of concept homes designed for the ‘Blue Ridge Mountains’. There are lovely little touches throughout this Single Page website like the background contour load transition in the Residencies section. Also make sure you check out the Landscape image slider, gorgeous stuff.
Hope you enjoyed these stunning One Pagers from May! Big love to hosting provider BlueHost for sponsoring the round up:)
This article explains how to get the file name, file size (in bytes), file type (Text/PDF/CSS files) and total selected file counts in jQuery before uploading it to the server.
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You can spend months building an amazing website only to let yourself down at the last stage with inadequate optimization or hosting.
Average page weight has reached 2,300KB and increases around 15% every year. The rise of projects such as Google Accelerated Mobile Pages, Facebook Instant Articles and ad-blockers highlight user frustration with the web we’ve created. Obese pages:
Few developers bother to optimize their sites so why should you?
The reason: there’s no downside. Your search engine rankings improve. Your users benefit from a slicker experience. Your conversions increase. Your hosting charges drop. Unlike real life, the most drastic weight loss can be achieved with minimal effort…
Assess the scale of any problems before making changes. Several free tools are available which report the number of requests, file sizes and server response speed. Some provide improvement suggestions.
Alternatively, use the Network or Profiling tools in your browser’s development tools to assess your site. Make a copy of the statistics so you can compare improvements later.
The following sections provide optimization suggestions starting with the easiest changes.
Your site may have taken considerable time and money to create. Should you really host it on a $5 per month service?
Take time to assess whether you need space on a shared server, your own private server or a cloud-based virtual server. Read hosting reviews at sites such as Hosting Facts and seek advice from others with similar requirements. At this moment, they’re suggesting to use A2 Hosting or A Small Orange.
Browsers limit HTTP requests to between four and eight simultaneous connections per domain. Loading 40 page assets at once is not possible – files are queued on each request thread.
In addition, your users may be located in a different geographical location to your server. A user in France would see a faster response from a UK-based server than similar hardware in Australia.
A CDN increases download speeds by distributing web site assets to other servers. Those machines can be physically closer to the user and run from different domains which more than doubles HTTP request limits.
CDNs have become simpler to use and many automatically handle assets once you’ve configured DNS settings. Popular options include:
Around a third of websites do not enable Gzip compression yet it can drastically reduce the amount of data sent to the browser. Gzip compression is often set by your web host on the server – contact them for further advice.
Caching ensures a browser downloads asset files once. The local version is retained until your website instructs it to fetch an update. The first page load won’t be faster but subsequent page loads will be considerably improved.
There are plugins for Content Management Systems such as WordPress which make caching simple, e.g. W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache.
Other systems can adopt technologies such as Expires, Last-Modified, Keep-Alive or Etag in the HTTP header. Your host may provide configuration options or you can define your own. For example, an Apache .htaccess setting to cache all images for one month:
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg)$">
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
Images account for more than 60% of page weight. The average page requests 55 separate images at 1,457KB, 126KB of fonts, 400KB of video and 45KB of Flash. This seems slightly preposterous given the current trend for simplistic, plain-colored flat-designs!
The first step: remove unnecessary assets. Do you need that background video, hero image, italic font or 300 icons few will ever see? Can you use a subset of a font? Could you replace some images with CSS3 effects such as gradients or borders?
Presuming an image is required, ensure you use the most efficient format. In general:
If in doubt, experiment with different types until you find the best compromise between quality and file size.
Large images should be resized to reduce the resolution. An entry-level smartphone camera produces high-resolution photographs of several megabytes but you rarely need an image greater than 2,000 pixels wide for the best of today’s screens.
Next: ensure your images are the optimal size. Few graphics packages remove all possible data and most will retain unnecessary colors or EXIF meta data such as dates, locations and camera settings. One-off compression tasks can be achieved using online tools such as TinyPNG/JPE or smush.it. Installable processing tools such as OptiPNG, PNGOUT, jpegtran and jpegoptim can bulk-compress images. You can introduce compression systems such as imagemin into your build process or CMS users have options such as WP Smush which automatically compress uploaded files.
Smaller images can be combined into a single image sprite to reduce the number of HTTP requests. This has less of an advantage in HTTP/2 but icons used on every page can still benefit from being combined.
Finally, consider Base64-encoded inline data URIs for smaller, regularly-used images, e.g.
.bullet {
background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAQMAAAAlPW0iAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAAM0lEQVR4nGP4/5/h/1+G/58ZDrAz3D/McH8yw83NDDeNGe4Ug9C9zwz3gVLMDA/A6P9/AFGGFyjOXZtQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC");
}
This reduces the number of requests although maintenance can be more difficult. Online tools such as DataURL.net and data:URI Generator are fine for one-off conversions. There may also be encoder plugins for your editor/IDE but the easiest solution is PostCSS Assets – a PostCSS plugin – which magically converts any image, e.g.
.inline {
background-image: inline('image.png');
}
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