performance
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Performance typically refers to the speed, responsiveness, and initial load of a website; performance may also refer to the post type, performance. Poor silo performance can be a motivation for setting up, using, publishing to your own website.
Badly written Javascript, particularly poor use of frameworks, can cause bad site performance, perhaps an example of:
Tools & Reference
- Google PageSpeed Insights
- webpagetest.org can give you some ideas how and what to optimize
- thinkwithgoogle.com analyse your website for mobile/desktop with scoring and recommendations to fix issues based on different criteria of importance to get a better scoring.
- Web Performance Resources by Lara Hogan - good resources, talks, presentations on web performance
- Third Party Web: data on third party entities and their impact on the web.
- Report: State of JavaScript
- Examples of tiny websites that have high performance: Brr FYI and The HTML Review (via Andy Baio)
- Free Site Speed Test
- WebPageTest
- 1MB Club
Spinner gallery
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Feel free to add more sad performance spinners from sites that make you wait for JS to load or compute or something (instead of doing that work on the server for a faster client experience).
Posts & Articles
- 2026-03-12 : The 49MB Web Page
- 2024-03-17 : Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG
- 2024-03-16 : How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
- 2023-06-26 Wolf480pl
- 2022-08-16 Alex Russell
- 2022-03-15 : Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes
- 2020-07-06 kornelski
- 2019-10-30 : Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
- 2019-06-15 Alex Russell
- 2019-06-13 lenish
- 2019-05-28 Katie Hempenius
- 2019-03-11 Kevin Marks
- 2018-09-20 : All Websites Should Be Designed For Slow Internet On The Train
- 2018-05-15 Alex Russell
- 2018-01-17 : Using page speed in mobile search ranking (archived)
- 2017-10-22 : Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets
- 2016-12-31 : Day 11: Simpler fonts #100DaysOfIndieWeb
- 2015-03-05 : Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes (archived)