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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - 5 More Things That Make Your Site Slow

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes continue their discussion of website page speed — five more things that make your site slow! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 03:01 - Shipping too much JS Code splitting Webpack Bundle Analyzer Look at dependencies of libraries Use fewer libraries 06:38 - Not bundling code Build process 08:24 - Not compressing code Google Closure Compiler Gzip via your server serving assets Minify CSS + JS 11:45 - Loading JS asynchronously Where should I put tags in HTML markup? Solution: Lazy load JS as needed Solution: Show HTML first, load JS in the footer Solution: Use Async + Defer 16:42 - Missing indexes on DB What is a DB index? Where should you add them? MongoDB Compass Links Syntax 239: Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow Google PageSpped Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

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Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

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the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

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Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky.

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Oh, well, welcome to Syntax.

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In this episode of Syntax, we're going to be talking about five more things you should know about

0:34.0

performance to make your applications much faster, very much faster. We got so many

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things, so many tips, so many little things that you can do here. So this is part two of a series that who knows how many parts are going to be because there's just a lot of perf tips. We have an endless stream of them here. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I am a full stack developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is Wes Boss.

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Hey everybody.

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Wes Boss coming at you from the Boss House.

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Boss.

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I've been asking people what to, I'm building a little shed office and trying to figure out what to call it.

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Boss house was my submission.

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Boss Haas.

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Some people except called the Bike Shedd, which I thought was hilarious.

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The bike shed is fantastic.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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