Perhaps you’ve heard of HTTP/2? It’s not just an idea, it’s a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing it to their servers. Much has been said about the benefits of using HTTP/2 …
Ire Aderinokun describes a frustrating problem that we’ve probably all noticed at one point or another:
…Recently, I’ve found that some of my articles that are GIF-heavy tend to get incredibly slow. The reason for this is that each frame
Dan Luu on the sorry state of web performance:
……it’s not just nerds like me who care about web performance. In the U.S., AOL alone had over 2 million dialup users in 2015. Outside of the U.S., there are even
Here’s a neat transcript of a talk by Mat Marquis where he details how he made the Bocoup website lightning fast, particularly with snazzy font loading tricks and performance tools to help monitor those improvements over time.
Although, my favorite …
Ben Maurer & Nate Schloss:
…The browser’s reload button exists to allow the user to get an updated version of the current page. In order to meet this goal, when you reload, browsers revalidate the page that you are currently
Ire Aderinokun:
There are 6 stages to the CRP –
- Constructing the DOM Tree
- Constructing the CSSOM Tree
- Running JavaScript
- Creating the Render Tree
- Generating the Layout
- Painting
I imagine if you’re really getting into performance work, you’ll want a …
Time for another pairing screencast! This time I have Zach Leatherman on, from Filament Group. Zach has done a lot of research, writing, and speaking about web font loading the past few years. He’s got a comprehensive guide on …
Sally Jenkinson:
…Progressive Web Apps (sometimes referred to as PWAs, because everything in tech needs an acronym) is the encapsulating term for websites following a certain approach, that meet particular technical criteria. The “app” involvement in the name isn’t an
Ethan Marcotte, on time- and budget-constrained organizations websites:
…Between the urgency of their work and the size of their resources, spending months on a full redesign isn’t something they can afford to do. Given that, a free theme for, say,
Scott Jehl, explaining one of the performance improvements he made to the Filament Group site:
…Inlining is a measurably-worthwhile workaround, but it’s still a workaround. Fortunately, HTTP/2’s Server Push feature brings the performance benefits of inlining without sacrificing cacheability for
Perhaps you’ve heard about the WebP image format? And how it’s a pretty good performance win, for the browsers that support it? Well that’s only for Blink-based browsers, at the moment. Estelle Weyl’s article Image Optimization explains the best image …
