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Andy Hume
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Anatomy of a responsive page load, Responsive Day Out 2013
Make content appear fast on the screen. Presentation from Responsive Day Out 2013
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Transcript
PAGE LOAD Andy Hume THE ANATOMY OF A Responsive Day
Out, 2013 RESPONSIVE
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Content-Encoding: gzip Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
Content-Encoding: gzip Cache-Control: max-age=315360000 OK. NOW WE CAN TALK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/freefoto/2231356418/ Performance
page load time PERFORMANCE bandwidth use battery life server capacity
fast interface reliability
page load time PERFORMANCE page load time bandwidth use battery
life server capacity fast interface reliability
Content THREE STAGES Enhancement Leftovers
Content THREE STAGES Enhancement Leftovers
Content THREE STAGES Enhancement Leftovers
Content THREE STAGES Enhancement Leftovers
Content Enhancement Leftovers
Content Enhancement Leftovers
Content Enhancement Leftovers
Content Enhancement Leftovers
Content Enhancement Leftovers DOMContentReady event
Content Enhancement Leftovers DOMContentReady event Load event
NO. 1 TRADE OFF http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkypancake/477244177/ Trade-off: Script loading
SCRIPT LOADING <script> var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = "app.js";
document.head.appendChild(script); </script>
SCRIPT LOADING <script src="app.js" async defer></script>
SCRIPT LOADING appendChild(script) <script async> HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT HTML CSS
JAVASCRIPT
DOMContentReady event Load event Content Enhancement Leftovers
DOMContentReady event Load event Content Enhancement Leftovers
<script> if (isModernBrowser()) { var s = document.createElement('script'); s.src =
"app.js"; document.head.appendChild(script); } </script> CUTTING THE MUSTARD
DOMContentReady event Load event Content Enhancement Leftovers
@if(isModernBrowser) { <script src="app.js" async defer></script> } CUTTING THE MUSTARD
DOMContentReady event Load event Content Enhancement Leftovers
DOMContentReady event Load event Content Enhancement Leftovers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/4600963461/ Trade-off: CSS download
CSS DOWNLOAD <link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <!-- For larger viewports
--> <link href="larger.css" media="screen and (min-width: 350px)" rel="stylesheet" />
CSS DOWNLOAD <link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" /> @if(isWideDevice()) { <link href="larger.css"
media="screen and (min-width: 350px)" rel="stylesheet" /> }
RESPONSIVE SERVER
RESPONSIVE SERVER Relies on device detection DeviceAtlas, WURFL RESS
NO. 3 ( 4) TRADE OFF http://www.flickr.com/photos/harikrishnanb/4264996356/ Trade-off: Web fonts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacemanbob/1084139169/ Web fonts
FONT LOADING Progressive enhancement
FONT LOADING Progressive enhancement Cuts the mustard
FONT LOADING Progressive enhancement Cuts the mustard Supports WOFF
FONT LOADING Progressive enhancement Cuts the mustard Supports WOFF localStorage
available
PRE-RENDER CUT THE MUSTARD? NO FONTS SHOW FONTS NO NO
SUPPORT WOFF? FONTS IN STORAGE? NO
POST-RENDER STORAGE AVAILABLE? NO FONTS SHOW FONTS NO DOWNLOAD FONTS:
BASE64 ENCODED IN JSON CACHE FONTS IN STORAGE
POST-RENDER STORAGE AVAILABLE? NO FONTS SHOW FONTS NO DOWNLOAD FONTS:
BASE64 ENCODED IN JSON CACHE FONTS IN STORAGE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/4412946911/ Trade-off: Images
RESPONSIVE IMAGES
Why media queries? THE FUTURE Modules, patterns, systems, components, OOCSS,
SMACSS, Standalone Viewport is irrelevant
Why media queries? THE FUTURE Modules, patterns, systems, components, OOCSS,
SMACSS, Standalone Viewport is irrelevant
RESPONSIVE IMAGES <picture alt="Describes the image."> <source src="s.jpg"> <source media="(min-width:320px)"
src="m.jpg"> </picture>
RESPONSIVE IMAGES <div data-alt="Describes the image." data-src="small.jpg" data-src-high="large.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="100"
> </div>
None
None
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIVE
PERFORMANCE
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