Overall I think the page load times are good, but I still have a major issue with site structure. There are way too many full page loads going on, especially on the spells, items, and monster sections. Each of the major category buttons on these pages causes a full page load and it slows the whole process down a lot. Say for instance I want to look up armors and weapons; clicking on armor results in a page load which I have to wait for to then click on the weapons which results in another page load. This slows the whole process down, and isn't consistent with the advanced filters which wait for the user to click a button to apply all the filters selected (I much better flow IMO).
Now I understand that part of the reasoning for doing so many page loads is to give the ability to deep link to a specific filter setup, but you don't have to do FULL page loads to accomplish that. Having partial page loads where the top of the page with all the filter options don't have to reload would speed things up. You could also treat the large circle category buttons like the advanced filter button where there needs to be another click action to apply. This adds another click, but helps overall performance in that there are less page loads for multiple category selections. Added benefit is less hits on the server keeping server health up.
What do other people think? Does this just bother me?
Overall I think the page load times are good, but I still have a major issue with site structure. There are way too many full page loads going on, especially on the spells, items, and monster sections. Each of the major category buttons on these pages causes a full page load and it slows the whole process down a lot. Say for instance I want to look up armors and weapons; clicking on armor results in a page load which I have to wait for to then click on the weapons which results in another page load. This slows the whole process down, and isn't consistent with the advanced filters which wait for the user to click a button to apply all the filters selected (I much better flow IMO).
Now I understand that part of the reasoning for doing so many page loads is to give the ability to deep link to a specific filter setup, but you don't have to do FULL page loads to accomplish that. Having partial page loads where the top of the page with all the filter options don't have to reload would speed things up. You could also treat the large circle category buttons like the advanced filter button where there needs to be another click action to apply. This adds another click, but helps overall performance in that there are less page loads for multiple category selections. Added benefit is less hits on the server keeping server health up.
What do other people think? Does this just bother me?
All right observations. I am sure the devs will optimize the app.