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Improving Performance with Responsive Images [WebPerfTO]
Toronto Web Performance Group
January 22, 2014
https://github.com/nwtn/pres-respimg-perf
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January 22, 2014
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Transcript
@towebperf Tweet! #towebperf ! ! DAVID NEWTON (@NEWTRON) RESPONSIVE IMAGES
BLAKE CROSBY (@BLAKECROSBY) THE IMPORTANCE OF A CDN HELLO! & Review!
Improving Performance with Responsive Images Toronto Web Performance Group January
22, 2014
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–Brad Frost “Good performance is good design”
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–Anand Giridharadas, New York Times, April 10 2010 “More human
beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet.”
–Anand Giridharadas, New York Times, April 10 2010 “More human
beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet.”
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1. A flexible, grid-based layout, 2. Flexible images and media,
and 3. Media queries, a module from the CSS3 specification
1. A flexible, grid-based layout, 2. Flexible images and media,
and 3. Media queries, a module from the CSS3 specification
img { max-width: 100%; }
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A solution Serve one big image and let the browser
scale it
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• Average web page size: 1,681 KB • Images account
for 1,031 KB, over 61% of total ! HTTP Archive, January 15 2014
2x resolution = 4x as many pixels
–Brad Frost “Good performance is good design”
A better solution Serve an appropriately-sized image to each user
Responsive Images
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SVG, WebP, JPEG XR
• <picture>: http://picture.responsiveimages.org/ • srcset: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/ w3c-srcset/ • Client Hints:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-grigorik- http-client-hints-01
<picture> <source srcset="pic1x.jpg 1x, pic2x.jpg 2x, pic4x.jpg 4x"> <img alt="A
rad wolf." src="pic1x.jpg"> </picture>
<picture> <source media="(min-width: 45em)" src="large.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 18em)" src="med.jpg"> <img
src="small.jpg" alt="The president."> </picture>
<picture> <source media="(min-width: 45em)" srcset="large-1.jpg 1x, large-2.jpg 2x"> <source media="(min-width:
18em)” srcset="med-1.jpg 1x, med-2.jpg 2x"> <source srcset="small-1.jpg 1x, small-2.jpg 2x"> <img src="small-1.jpg" alt="The president."> </picture>
<picture> <source sizes="100%" srcset="pic400.jpg 400w, pic800.jpg 800w, pic1600.jpg 1600w"> <img
src="pic400.jpg" alt="The president."> </picture>
<picture> <source type="image/webp" src="prez.webp"> <img src="prez.jpg" alt="The president."> </picture>
http://picture.responsiveimages.org/
Performance wins
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Resource Priorities http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-priorities/
When can we expect this to work?
What can you do now?
ImageOptim-CLI http://jamiemason.github.io/ImageOptim-CLI/
Use fewer images
SVG
Picturefill https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill
• Art direction • Viewport switching (using MQs) • DPR
switching (using MQs)
<span data-picture data-alt="A giant stone face"> <span data-src="small.jpg"></span> <span data-src="medium.jpg"
data-media="(min-width: 400px)"></span> <span data-src="large.jpg" data-media="(min-width: 800px)"></span> <span data-src="extralarge.jpg" data-media="(min-width: 1000px)"></span> <noscript> <img src="small.jpg" alt="A giant stone face"> </noscript> </span>
data-media="(min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (min-resolution: 144dpi)"
• Art direction • Viewport switching (using MQs) • DPR
switching (using MQs) • Resolution switching (using srcset) • File type switching • Resource priorities
• Art direction • Viewport switching (using MQs) • DPR
switching (using MQs) • DPR switching (using srcset) • File type switching • Resource priorities
Picturefull https://github.com/nwtn/picturefill
<span data-picture data-postpone data-alt="A giant stone face"> <span data-type="image/webp" data-srcset="
[email protected]
1x,
[email protected]
2x"></span> <span data-type="image/webp" data-srcset="medium.webp@1x 1x, medium.webp@2x 2x" data-media="(min-width: 400px)"></span> ... <span data-srcset="
[email protected]
1x,
[email protected]
2x"></span> <span data-srcset="medium.jpg@1x 1x, medium.jpg@2x 2x" data-media="(min-width: 400px)"></span> ... <noscript> <img src="
[email protected]
" alt="A giant stone face"> </noscript> </span>
Impact
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No optimizations • 11 HTTP requests • 2.9MB of data
transferred • 3.72s load time
No optimizations • 11 HTTP requests • 2.9MB of data
transferred • 3.72s load time
Optimizations • 14 HTTP requests • 476KB of data transferred
(~84% savings) • 1.26s load time (~66% savings)
Optimizations • 14 HTTP requests • 476KB of data transferred
(~84% savings) • 1.26s load time (~66% savings)
Optimizations + RP • 5 HTTP requests • 235KB of
data transferred (~92% savings) • 1.11s load time (~70% savings)
Optimizations + RP • 5 HTTP requests • 235KB of
data transferred (~92% savings) • 1.11s load time (~70% savings)
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David Newton! @newtron on Twitter @nwtn on GitHub
[email protected]