Fast Sites FTW!

Tips and tricks to make your website load faster than 90% of those found on the web.

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1. FAST SITES FTW! Central Illinois Web Professionals User Group April 9, 2019 by Reuben Cummings
2. @reubano – Google Research/webpagetest.org, 2017 “The average time it takes to fully load a mobile landing page is 22 seconds.”
3. PAGE SPEED EFFECT ON BOUNCE RATE Bounce rate 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 Page load time (s) 1 3 5 6 10 Source: Google/SOASTA Research, 2017
4. @reubano CASE STUDY: ICC https://icc.edu/
5. @reubano BY THE NUMBERS Source: https://www.dareboost.com/en
6. Source: Walt Disney Pictures ASSET MINIFICATION
7. @reubano 20 JAVASCRIPT FILES
8. @reubano 10 CSS FILES
9. WEBSITE BUNDLERS
11. BRUNCH-CONFIG.JS exports.plugins = { babel: {presets: ['latest']}, postcss: {processors: [require('autoprefixer')]} }; exports.files = { javascripts: { joinTo: { 'vendor.js': /^(?!app)/, 'app.js': /^app/ } }, stylesheets: {joinTo: 'app.css'} };
12. PACKAGE.JSON { … "devDependencies": { "brunch": "^2", "babel-brunch": "^6", "postcss-brunch": "^2", "sass-brunch": "^2", "uglify-js-brunch": "^2", "autoprefixer": "^6", "babel-preset-latest": “^6" } }
13. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkroses FONTS
14. @reubano 5 REMOTE FONTS
15. GITHUB.CSS @font-face { font-family: system; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; src: local("Ubuntu Light"), local("Segoe UI Light"), local("Roboto-Light"), local("DroidSans"), local("Tahoma"); } body { font-family: "system"; } Source: css-tricks.com
16. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_belford IMAGES
17. @reubano 25 IMAGES
18. IMAGE OPTIMIZERS kraken.io OptiPNG
19. IMAGEMIN-BRUNCH $ npm install --save-dev imagemin-brunch $ brunch build --production Source: github.com/stawberri/imagemin-brunch
20. IMAGEMIN-BRUNCH $ npm install --save-dev imagemin-brunch $ brunch build --production compiled 6 files into 2 files, copied 14 in 2.3 sec minified 9 images to save 334 kB in 5.3 sec Source: github.com/stawberri/imagemin-brunch
21. INDEX.HTML <img src="small.jpg" srcset="medium.jpg 1000w, large.jpg 2000w" alt=“yah" > Source: css-tricks.com
22. @reubano • Enable gzip compression • Utilize browser caching • Serve static files from a CDN • Use static site generators • Load javascript using “async” • Remove trackers BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE…
23. @reubano BY THE NUMBERS Source: https://www.dareboost.com/en
24. @reubano 6 TOTAL REQUESTS!
25. @reubano HEAD TO HEAD Source: https://www.dareboost.com/en
26. @reubano Source: https://www.dareboost.com/en
27. @reubano Source: https://www.dareboost.com/en
28. @reubano RESOURCES • https://think.storage.googleapis.com/docs/mobile-page- speed-new-industry-benchmarks.pdf • https://www.dareboost.com/en/report/ d_5cabb8d5e967904c6f44082f • https://www.webpagetest.org • https://tools.pingdom.com/ • http://brunch.io/
29. @reubano RESOURCES • https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/ • https://cloudinary.com/ • https://kraken.io/ • http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ • https://pngquant.org/ • https://github.com/stawberri/imagemin-brunch
30. @reubano RESOURCES • https://css-tricks.com/responsive-images-youre-just- changing-resolutions-use-srcset/ • https://www.staticgen.com/ • https://staticsitegenerators.net/ • https://www.netlify.com/
31. THANKS! Reuben Cummings @reubano