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benvinegar
November 15, 2015
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Transcript
re-evaluating front-end performance best practices
@bentlegen
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http://getsentry.com
car·go cult
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cargo cult web performance
how did we get here?
deprecated books 2007 2009 2010
stackoverflow answers
analysis tools
analysis tools 2014 2013
practices on live websites
conference talks
today’s agenda • hostname sharding • for-loop array length caching
• dynamic script insertion
hostname sharding
in the beginning (HTTP 1.0)
with more connections 2 4 8 www www www
with hostname sharding 2 2 2 www www1, www2 www1
www2 www3 www4
still common Website # Static Hosts plus.google.com 4 tumblr.com 4
alibaba.com 4 theverge.com 4 ebay.com 6 businessinsider.com 6 netflix.com 11!
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not a big deal anymore
browser connections/origin Browser # HTTP / origin Chrome 42 6
Firefox 37 8 Safari 7 6 IE 8, 9 6 IE 10 8 IE 11 13 bit.ly/rprf-bscope
chrome caps parallel image requests at 10 anyways bit.ly/rprf-bscope
rise of https stalled/ proxy negotiation dns lookup connection +
tls/ssl time-to- first-byte download tls/ssl handshake
and http/2 will make all this irrelevant anyways
“2 domains for non- [HTTP2] modern browsers” – Souders in
2013 bit.ly/rprf-2domains
etsy case study • 4 image domains → 2 •
50-80 ms faster for image heavy pages • 30-50 ms faster overall • up to 500ms faster on mobile bit.ly/rprf-etsy
the web’s moving on Website # Static Hosts netflix.com* 1
nytimes.com 1 youtube.com 2 twitter.com 2 facebook.com 2 pinterest.com 2 bbc.co.uk 2 etsy.com 3
looping
specifically array length caching in for loops
for (var i = 0, len = arr.length; i <
len; i++) { // do stuff } for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { // do stuff } vs
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does it still hold?
cache vs no cache Chrome 42 Firefox 37 Safari 7
IE9+ IE8 ops/second (normalized), bigger is better cache no cache 78%
V8 (and other browsers) recognize this pattern bit.ly/rprf-v8opt
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uncached version
cached version
“we should start assuming that our code is optimized” -
Vyacheslav Egorov, V8 bit.ly/rprf-v8opt
if you can trivially optimize it, the browser (probably) can
too
mobile disagrees, a little Chrome 41 (Android 5.1) Firefox 34
(Android 5.1) Safari (iOS 8) ops / second (normalized), bigger is better cache no cache 95%
new in es6 for (x of arr) { … }
dynamic script insertion
blocking scripts (2009) <script src=“/vendor.js”></script> <script src=“/app.js"></script> <img src=“/logo.gif”/> <link
rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“/app.css”/> <iframe src=“/widget.html”/> vendor.js finishes app.js starts img, css, iframe
dynamic script insertion <script> var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src =
'/app.js'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] .appendChild(script); </script> all load in parallel
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you’ve used this • analytics: GA, Mixpanel, Chartbeat, Wordpress •
widgets: Disqus, Facebook Comments • JS module loaders: RequireJS, LabJS • script managers: Google Tag Manager, Segment
small problem: CSS Object Model
CSS Object Model (CCSOM) <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ main.css"/> <script>
window.getComputedStyle(document.body).margin; </script> can’t execute until CSS ready
CSSOM + dynamic script insertion <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ main.css"/>
<script> var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = '/app.js'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] .appendChild(script); </script> can’t execute until CSS ready
dynamic script insertion scripts execute inline scripts can’t execute until
CSSOM ready; downloading is delayed
blocking 2nd script downloads after 1st executes 1st script preloaded
1st script executes
blocking with Chrome 1st and 2nd script preloaded 1st and
2nd script execute (blocked for CSSOM)
2014
3rd option: async attribute <script async src="/app.js"></script>
ideal: async attribute scripts execute before CSS finished all 3
resources download in parallel
we should probably start using async
new: GA + async attr
closing thoughts
don’t always believe what you read on the internet
benchmark your own stuff
benchmark your own stuff every few years
always bet on browsers (and JS engines)
thanks
acknowledgements • performance research: Steve Souders, Ilya Grigorik, Guy Podjarny,
Vyacheslav Egorov, Jonathan Klein, Paul Irish, Nicholas Zakas • photos: Christian Junker, André Hofmeister, “My aim is true” • me: Ben Vinegar (@bentlegen) • Sentry plug: http://getsentry.com