Help your browser
to perform at its best!
Fronteers bijeenkomst, 24 april 2014
Jeroen Moors
I'm a freelance consultant.
@jeroenmoors
http://jeroen.is
jeroen.moors@fluoline.net
+32 475 71 42 49
Stijn: Jeroen, do you want to give a talk?
Jeroen: For Fronteers?
Stijn: Yes
Jeroen: Fuck Ja, but I'm not really a Fronteer
Stijn: No worries, pick a subject
Jeroen: Maybe performance?
Stijn: Yeah! Sounds good
Jeroen: Dan gaan we buzze geven in Antwerpen
My Simple Classification Model
Frontend people - 100% CSGBWEJ
Backend people - 50% CSGBWEJ
Infrastructure geeks - 0% CSGBWEJ
Chance of Seducing Girl in Bar When Explaining Job
But, it works on my computer...
Let's go surfing!
You enter an url...
Bang!
Where the f*ck do you want to go?
performance.dev.fluoline.net
DNS
Setup TCP-connection
HTTP Request
GET /frontend/basic.html HTTP/1.1
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,...
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:nl,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4,th;q=0.2
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:performance.dev.fluoline.net
If-Modified-Since:Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:26:10 GMT
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36...HTTP Response
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Connection:Keep-Alive
Date:Thu, 23 Apr 2014 12:51:35 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=15, max=98
Server:Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Vary:Accept-Encoding
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Performance Demo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
<p>What would a web page be without a cat?</p>
<img src="img/cat_red.png" alt="A cat" id="cat">
<img src="img/mouse_red_small.png" alt="A mouse" id="mouse">
<p>And a <a href="#" id="link">link</a> to a mouse.</p>
...HTML
Parse HTML into trees
DOM Tree
Download more...
Paint!
Navigation Timing API
window.addEventListener("load", function() {
setTimeout(function() {
var timing = window.performance.timing;
var userTime = timing.loadEventEnd - timing.navigationStart;
var dns = timing.domainLookupEnd - timing.domainLookupStart;
var connection = timing.connectEnd - timing.connectStart;
var requestTime = timing.responseEnd - timing.requestStart;
var fetchTime = timing.responseEnd - timing.fetchStart;
// use timing data
}, 0);
}, false);http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-navigation-timing-20110315/
Measure!!
Navigation Timing API
http://kaaes.github.io/timing/
WBench
https://github.com/desktoppr/wbench
Google Analytics
Other tools
YSlow
Google Page Speed
New Relic
Avoid redirects
Reduce the number of different domain names
DNS prefetching
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//somehost.tld" />Reduce the number of http requests
Combine javascript and CSS
CSS Sprites (larger images as well)
Inline images, javascript and CSS
Client side caching...
Client side caching
Cache images, JS & CSS for ever!
<img src="/img/logo.png" alt="Company Logo" width="42" height="42"> <img src="/img/logo_1.png" alt="Company Logo" width="42" height="42">Reduce the size of the traffic
GZIP
Minify
Right image types & size (optimized)
Avoid 404-errors
Remove dead links
Provide a fav icon
HAVE THE BACKEND
GUYS WRITE COOL CODE!
CSS on top
Javascript in the bottom
<script src="file.js" defer></script>CSS Optimal rule definition
body * {...}
.hide-scrollbars * {...}
ul li a {...}.cool-class {...}
#one-and-one-only-id {...}
CSS Remove unused rules
.a-class-once-used {
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0
}#a-id-with-no-use {
word-spacing:30px;
margin-left:200px;
background:#5d9ab2 url("img_tree.png") no-repeat top left;
}
http://unused-css.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dust-me-selectors/
Specify a character set
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8Avoid reflow
chromium-browser --show-paint-rectsFake it!
Browsers evolve
Go and play!
Slides
Feedback, questions, ...
@jeroenmoors
jeroen.moors@fluoline.net
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