20 Easy Win Performance Tips
In this episode, Scott and Wes chat about 20 different ways you can improve the perf, speed and overall user experience of your websites.
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Show Notes
So many perf tips came in over twitter, so in addition to this podcast I'd recommend you read all the replies to this tweet
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- We just cracked 1,000,000 downloads! Thank you!
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- Network Tips
- Reducing the amount of HTTP requests
- A little bit about HTTP2
- An interview about http2
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- Use Caching and LocalStorage
- Turn on aggressive caching on your server - long expire times
- What is gzip? / Enabling gzip
12:00
- Using a CDN
- Listen to our episode on CDNs and #BigZips
13:00
- When to load your JS
- Blocking Requests
15:00
- Use Lazy Loading
17:00
- Preloading content with Link rel="preload"
- rel="prefetch"
19:00
- Picture, picturefill and srcset=""
- Article on srcsrc and Picture
- srcset vs picture/source elements
25:00
- Image Compression
- One less jpg
- Serve less data
26:00
- Inline SVG
- Talk about Font Awesome
33:00
- CSS and JS Code
- Critical CSS
37:00
- Remove unused code
- Purify CSS
- no-unused-imports with ESlint
38:00
- Code Splitting
40:00
- Transpile less
- babel-preset-env
41:00
- Tree shaking
- Hoyyyy its a tree shaker
42:00
- Async ans defer attributes on your script tags
- Amazing site that visualizes async and defer
45:00
- Icon Fonts
- Web Fonts
- Native Font Stack:
- Good:
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;
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- Troubleshooting Performance
- Simulate Slow Network Speed
- Google Page Speed
- Wes' Page Speed Video
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Shameless Plugs
- Scott is working on a Vue course!
- Wes is working on his Advanced React course!
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