Overall Status: Phases 1 to 4 are complete, and Phase 5 is in progress.

Phase 1

- Completed Jul 2022

- We implemented nine items aimed at improving our website’s performance, three more than we had previously identified. They have resulted in a modest increase in our website’s speed/response time, and should significantly reduce, if not nearly eliminated 502 and 503 “timeout” errors.

Phase 2

- Completed Aug/Sep 2022

- We migrated/updated our core content types from archetype to dexterity type. While it will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 3

- Completed Feb 2023

- We migrated our web forms from PFG (PloneFormGen) to EasyForm. Web forms include feedback surveys, leader applications, incident reports, etc. Like migrating our core content types, this will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 4

- Completed Mar 2023

- Upgrade our website platform from Plone 5.1 to 5.2 and Python 2 to 3, and update our web server to the latest architecture and operating system. These are the upgrades that will bring significant improvements to our website performance.

Phase 5

– Planned for Mar-Apr 2023

- Benchmarking and optimizing our web server and website’s performance as needed.

NOTE: Our website will be down from 9pm on Wed, Mar 29 to roughly 9am on Thu, Mar 30 to install the updates in Phase 4.

Overall Status: Phases 1 to 3 are complete, and Phase 4 is in progress.

Phase 1

- Completed Jul 2022

- We implemented nine items aimed at improving our website’s performance, three more than we had previously identified. They have resulted in a modest increase in our website’s speed/response time, and should significantly reduce, if not nearly eliminated 502 and 503 “timeout” errors.

Phase 2

- Completed Aug/Sep 2022

- We migrated/updated our core content types from archetype to dexterity type. While it will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 3

- Completed Feb 2023

- We migrated our web forms from PFG (PloneFormGen) to EasyForm. Web forms include feedback surveys, leader applications, incident reports, etc. Like migrating our core content types, this will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 4

- In Progress, Estimated completion end of Feb to early Mar 2023

- Upgrade our website platform from Plone 5.1 to 5.2 and Python 2 to 3, and update our web server to the latest architecture and operating system. These are the upgrades that will bring significant improvements to our website performance.

Phase 5

– Planned for Mar 2023

- Benchmarking and optimizing our web server and website’s performance as needed.

Overall Status: Phases 1 to 3 are complete, and Phase 4 is in progress.

Phase 1

- Completed Jul 2022

- We implemented nine items aimed at improving our website’s performance, three more than we had previously identified. They have resulted in a modest increase in our website’s speed/response time, and should significantly reduce, if not nearly eliminated 502 and 503 “timeout” errors.

Phase 2

- Completed Aug/Sep 2022

- We migrated/updated our core content types from archetype to dexterity type. While it will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 3

- Completed Feb 2023

- We migrated our web forms from PFG (PloneFormGen) to EasyForm. Web forms include feedback surveys, leader applications, incident reports, etc. Like migrating our core content types, this will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 4

- In Progress, Estimated completion end of Feb to early Mar 2023

- Upgrade our website platform from Plone 5.1 to 5.2 and Python 2 to 3, and update our web server to the latest architecture and operating system. These are the upgrades that will bring significant improvements to our website performance.

Phase 5

– Planned for Mar 2023

- Benchmarking and optimizing our web server and website’s performance as needed.

NOTE: Our website will be down from 10:00pm on Mon, Feb 13 to 9:00am on Tue, Feb 14 to deploy the improvements in Phase 3.

Phase 1

- Completed Jul 2022

- We implemented nine items aimed at improving our website’s performance, three more than we had previously identified. They have resulted in a modest increase in our website’s speed/response time, and should significantly reduce, if not nearly eliminated 502 and 503 “timeout” errors.

Phase 2

- Completed Aug/Sep 2022

- We migrated/updated our core content types from archetype to dexterity type. While it will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 3

- In Progress, Oct 2022 and Jan/Feb 2023, Planned launch Feb 13-14, 2023

- We are migrating our web forms from PFG (PloneFormGen) to EasyForm. Web forms include feedback surveys, leader applications, incident reports, etc. Like migrating our core content types, this will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, this is an important step that gets us closer to a suite of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 4

- In Progress, Estimated completion end of Feb to early Mar 2023

- Upgrade our website platform from Plone 5.1 to 5.2 and Python 2 to 3, and update our web server to the latest architecture and operating system. These are the upgrades that will bring significant improvements to our website performance.

Phase 5

– Planned for Mar 2023

- Benchmarking and optimizing our web server and website’s performance as needed.

On Sep 27, we completed Phase 3, the core types migration. While it will not directly lead to any website performance improvements, it is an important step that gets us closer to a set of updates that will give us a significant website performance increase.

Phase 2 is delayed. We’ll provide an update as soon as we can.

Phase 4, migrating our web forms , is under way and, after a brief hiatus, should be complete by the end of Feb 2023.

Phase 5 is updating our website from Plone 5.1 to 5.2 and Python 2 to Python 3, and upgrading to a web sever that works best with these upgrades.

Today (Fri, Jul 22), we implemented nine items aimed at improving our website’s performance, three more than we had previously identified. They have resulted in a modest increase in our website’s speed/response time, and should significantly reduce, if not nearly eliminate 503/502 timeout errors.

This is the first of five phases of improvements aimed at website performance. The next is identifying views that can benefit from optimization to increase their load speed. Once identified, we’ll prioritize them and schedule the remaining phases.

We identified a half dozen items that we can implement over the next couple weeks to improve our website’s performance. One of those items is to identify website views that can be optimized based on our web server metrics. Once identified, we’ll work on those optimizations. We’ll post updates here as we progress through these improvements.