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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. Jack Lenox. Large preview ).

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How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

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However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Let’s take a look at the following example.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. Adrian Bece.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

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The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img This is a best practice only if you do it only to secondary images — typically for the ones will be displayed below the fold. <img Here’s a snippet of code that does that. <!

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. The downside is that third-party requests can impact website visitors.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are? Align performance efforts with other tech initiatives, ranging from new features of the product being built to refactoring to reaching to new global audiences. Image source ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers?