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There have been some recent performance concerns raised, so I wanted to provide an update about how we've been doing:

First, we discovered the culprit in a render-blocking script served from an external CDN (content delivery network) was causing the random slowdowns. We've removed that dependency.

Next, we've upgraded the site to HTTP2 (when SSL/https is used). HTTP2 (which is used automatically when supported - no changed necessary) greatly improves page performance.

We've also made a number of other incremental improvements which members will see when they are loading a calendar directly from a URL (or using the 'Responsive Iframe' publish style).

A sample published calendar now typically scores in the High 90's for Desktop usage under Google PageSpeed (yay!)
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flocalendar.com%2Fpublic%2Fsample&tab=desktop

Let's look at some desktop PageSpeed scores for localendar vs. some calendars from other services:

localendar.com : 97/100
Keepandshare.com : 74/100
The Events Calendar (Wordpress plugin): 72/100
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[Oct 30, 2018, 7:47:14 PM] [69.126.127.39]

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Thanks Marc and the team! It is very snappy tonight. Great job. Loving localendar.com!

- Don

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Do still you support rss feeds for calendars? Our church uses
http://www.localendar.com/public/PUCCAdmin?style=D3
In the past I was writing a script to post process the output and put it in a legal rss format. Unfortunately, something broke on October 26th. I guess I can rewrite my script to fix the format again, but I was thinking it is probably better to fix the source. There are rss validators on the internet. https://validator.w3.org/feed/

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looks like the "http:" got chopped off of the link names.
//localendar.com
vs
http://localendar.com

[Nov 15, 2018, 3:38:25 PM] [129.42.161.36]

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the // is called a "protocol relative" url and is valid syntax (it will basically automatically use either http or https, depending on how you accessed the site initially)

I do see there is an issue with the feed incorrectly returning an HTML5 doctype at the start of the xml, which has been corrected.
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