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Ben Smithett
May 09, 2016
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The 12MB Web Page: A tale of perfect PageSpeed scores & developer happiness
Quick little talk I did at an Envato Code Party on May 9 2016.
Ben Smithett
May 09, 2016
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Transcript
The 12MB Web Page A tale of perfect PageSpeed scores
& developer happiness
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A static HTML page + some photos Fast? Easy to
build? Free?
Fast?
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Web pages are pretty fast by default! They only get
slow when we add “clever” cruft
on the other hand…
Photos are biiiiiiiiiig!
The challenge: Can I make a blazing fast, image- heavy
web page without resorting to lots of hacks & workarounds
How fast can a simple HTML document be?
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Speed Index: 1613 In the fastest ~10% of all websites
Optimisation #1 A truthful browser spinner
https://medium.com/@kellycatchpole/10-best-dog-breeds-for-your- family-22ea2cdde78d Browser says page has finished loading LIES!!!!
Don’t make the browser spinner lie. When the page says
it’s done loading, it’s really done!
Optimisation #2 Progressive JPEG
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Optimisation #3 Responsive Images
Widescreen + Retina: 11.1MB Tablet + Retina: 9.8MB Phone +
Retina: 8.7MB Widescreen: 7.8MB Tablet: 6.5MB Phone: 1.7MB
Optimisation #4 Font Face Observer
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https://github.com/bramstein/fontfaceobserver
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Optimisation #5 <script async src=“…”>
Optimisation #6 Cache everything forever
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Optimisation #7 Use a CDN
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Notable absentees: • “Critical CSS” • Loading content asynchronously •
Anything very tricky or hacky at all…
Easy to build?
I couuuld hand-write the HTML & CSS for this, but
I want…
• A living styleguide! • Sass! • Hot reloading! •
Reusable components!
The tooling: • React (no client side!) • Webpack +
static-site-generator-webpack-plugin • Sass • CSS Modules
React is a better back-end templating language than your favourite
back-end templating language.
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Free?
GitHub Pages + CloudFlare =
GitHub Pages has pretty crappy caching settings…
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But if you stick CloudFlare in front of it…
Easy cache header setting!
Free SSL! (well, “flexible SSL”)
A static HTML page + some photos Fast Easy to
build Free ✅ ✅ ✅