Thanks. So, I believe the issue is that the cdn doesn't just grab everything I have (at least, not the cdn I'm using), so it waits until it is called the first time. Once a file is in "your" local server, it is quite fast to get called.
So, it's worth seeing how things change as the cache hit percentage (how often it calls for a file, and the local cdn server has it) goes up. If it's not an acceptable level, I'll look into a push (instead of pull) setup, which requires me to push the files onto the cdn, which is trickier in some situations.
This is wholly unrelated to these settings, but I've also started pulling the audio down for the result panel *before* it is shown (while you are still answering the question), so at least for in quiz audio, there should be a much faster speedup.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if, in fact I would expect it to be the case that, the cache hit percentage for a long time user like Anonymous123 is considerably lower than that of the average user.
I'm looking into another service that's more expensive (but not too bad) that allows for what is called pre-warming, where I can seed the system ahead of time. If it works on my testing, I might just swap them out entirely. We'll see!
I was very impressed with the cached results, though, on the first one - I'm in Japan, so the trip to renshuu.org and back is usually a couple hundred milliseconds, but the cdn cached audio was coming back in 15ms.
This is both fascinating and frustrating, but I am making progress, both with the current cdn I'm testing, as well as at least one other I'm playing around with. Doubtful that I'll have updates today, but hopefully soon!
I am continuing to move more and more of the images into the new system. While I'm seeing general improvements, they are still not ideal for me yet, and I'm pushing to make it faster.
One issue is that most browsers/apps support webp, which is often a MUCH smaller file size for jpg/png images. My original image server would convert them and save them. The new system does that as well, it's just that it's not one server, it's 40 across the world, all doing the same conversion (I believe - talking with the CDN people about it). No file lives in the cache forever, so you've got files being converted to webp all the time, over and over again.
I've got a few ways to fix this, of various difficulties, but I do hope to get the images to load as quickly as the audio files are!
Hi I would like to inform about the bug with "Faster renshuu audio/image loading" : I would see this that : When I would set my pfp, first it would be like this without turning off the option for faster image. As you can see, its turned on & the pfp page in settings is normal as it should be.
But after turning off the option for faster images, I can see my pfp icon goes back to normal..
