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14islands
May 07, 2014
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Faster Responsive Websites
Talk from the JavaScript meetup 7th of May in Reykjavík, Iceland
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Transcript
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FASTER RESPONSIVE WEBSITES
This talk is not about How to build a rocket-ship
with Javascript
This talk is about Techniques to make our websites faster
THE PROBLEM
“75% of mobile users will leave the site if it
takes more than 5 seconds to load. http://www.digitalmall.us/1150/smartphone-users-frustrated-with-mobile-web-experience/
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“Today the average website is 1.7MB httparchive.org/interesting.php
http://httparchive.org/interesting.php?a=All&l=Oct%201%202013&s=Top1000 AVG. SITE 0 1 2 <1mb 2011 1.5mb 2013
2mb 2015 AVG. SITE 0 1 2 AVG. SITE 0 1 2
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“87% of mobile users expect sites to load at least
as fast, or faster than on their desktop. http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/web-performance-infographics/
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LET’S START WITH A PAGE BUDGET
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Example: Less than 3 seconds to see something.
Example: Not bigger than 1MB.
Example: No more than 20 requests.
Now try to stick to it. (good luck!)
USING ONLINE TOOLS SUCH AS WEBPAGETEST.ORG
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Coffee image
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– Paul Lewis “The Speed Index is the average time
at which visible parts of the page are displayed. http://aerotwist.com/blog/my-performance-audit-workflow/
– Paul Lewis “Paul Irish has, in the past, recommended
a goal of less than 1,000. http://aerotwist.com/blog/my-performance-audit-workflow/
Filmstrip
OLD-SCHOOL IS STILL COOL PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT
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– Jake Archibald “All your users are non-JS while they're
downloading your JS. https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/207096228339658752
Twitter.com dropped initial page load to 1/5th by moving rendering
to server. https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-twittercom
Airbnb experimented serving real HTML instead of JS and it
felt 5x quicker. http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-to-product/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/not-so-much/2819702177/
TV FRIDGE CAR
MOBILE-LAST
Breakpoints are enhancements
MOBILE-FIRST
DELAY LOAD OF SECONDARY CONTENT
Core content Secondary Secondary
Core content Secondary Secondary
Core content Secondary Secondary
var deferred = $.get("/partial"); ! deferred.done(function (html) { $wrapper.html(html); });
Real life example: Press Jack - article nav / next
article
Lazy load images
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https://github.com/ sakabako/scrollMonitor
var watcher = scrollMonitor.create(context, offset); ! watcher.enterViewport(loadImages);
<img data—lazy-src="http://path/to/image.jpg" />
<img src="http://path/to/image.jpg" />
OPTIMISING RESPONSIVE IMAGES
Biggest performance hit 69% of mobile web traffic
Serve images in the correct sizes. Please.
CSS background images
.thing { background-image: url('images/small.png'); } ! @media (min-width: 30em) {
.thing { background-image: url('images/medium.png'); } }
Note: Not for content images
Proposed <picture> spec
<picture> <source media="(min-width: 40em)" srcset="big.jpg 1x, big-hd.jpg 2x"> <source srcset="small.jpg
1x, small-hd.jpg 2x"> <img src="fallback.jpg" alt=""> </picture>
http://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/
<img src="small.jpg" srcset="large.jpg 1024w, medium.jpg 640w, small.jpg 320w" sizes="(min-width: 36em)
33.3vw, 100vw" /> Available images and their width Breakpoints in CSS and image width relative to the viewport
http://responsiveimages.org
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https://github.com/ scottjehl/picturefill Version 2.0
front-end & back-end Javascript
<img data-src="http://path/to/image.jpg" />
var imageWidth = image.offsetWidth * window.devicePixelRatio; ! var src =
“http://hej.se/image.jpg?w=“ + imageWidth; ! image.setAttribute("src", src);
Check browser for size and capabilities
Check browser for size and capabilities Request CDN
Do we have this image? Check browser for size and
capabilities Request CDN
Return the image Do we have this image? Check browser
for size and capabilities Request CDN
Prepare the image Return the image Do we have this
image? Check browser for size and capabilities Request CDN
Prepare the image Return the image Return the image Do
we have this image? Check browser for size and capabilities Request CDN
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THE AWESOMENESS OF SCALE VECTOR GRAPHICS
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SVG 4KB uncompressed PNG 10KB uncompressed
And it’s only markup text
Summary ! ! ! ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". ! ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". Progressive Enhancement is still
cool. ! ! ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". Progressive Enhancement is still
cool. Prioritise loading of content with JS. ! ! ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". Progressive Enhancement is still
cool. Prioritise loading of content with JS. Images are the biggest hit. ! ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". Progressive Enhancement is still
cool Prioritise loading of content with JS. Images are the biggest hit. SVGs are awesome. ! !
Summary Be aware. Set a "budget". Progressive Enhancement is still
cool Prioritise loading of content with JS. Images are the biggest hit. SVGs are awesome. ! !
Think and prioritise performance from day one.
“Measure. Treat performance as a core part of your site’s
quality and don’t ship without understanding and accepting it’s performance. http://www.guypo.com/mobile/performance-implications-of-responsive-design-book-contribution/
There are techniques
We need to care more
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