444385 - Reduce number of 302 redirects on initial load

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 441504

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Brian Krausz]

Going to http://addons.mozilla.org results in the following path:

1) http://addons.mozilla.org
2) https://addons.mozilla.org
3) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/
4) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Unless I am mistaken, amo defaults to /en-US/firefox/.  Is there a way we can stick a rule in to eliminate #3 on site entry ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == '/') and go straight to /en-US/firefox/

A more general idea is to do this for all URLs that lack both locale and product in their URLs.

A more more general idea is to aggregate redirects as much as possible, though I think this is the only scenario that this would help with.

This would help load time for our users.

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Duping to a similar bug that is mainly on annoyance and security rather than performance, but it's the same.

And no, we can't do static redirects because you don't always go to /en-US/firefox depending on what browser you're using, what locales your browser accepts, etc.

Comment 2

[Ryan Doherty (:rdoherty)]

Can we get access to bug 441504 to see the history of this issue? It seems like we could at least remove redirects # 2 & 3 while keeping the same functionality.

Reducing redirects are an important part of performance improvements:
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#redirects

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup