Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about five things that could potentially be making your website slow. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 3:00 - TTFB Slow DNS lookup Server on the other side of the world Slow server processing Network speed back to the browser 6:21 - Requests Too many requests Too large Waterfalling your requests 9:44 - Assets are too large Images are the biggest bloat in a site Compress and optimize via build tool or ImageOptim Make smaller Picture fill for mobile 14:48 - Lazy loading lazy=“true” Intersection observer Preload slider images two ahead 18:03 - Not using a CDN What is a CDN? Cloudflare is free, others are very cheap - we used Cloudfront Netlify is free and comes with a CDN Links WordPress Webpack Gulp gatsby-image Cloudinary Cloudflare Cloudfront Netlify 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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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday,
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face
0:06.0	with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,
0:09.0	get workflows,
0:10.0	break dancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Welcome to Syntax on this Monday hasty treat we are going to be talking about.
0:32.0	Five things that could be potentially making your site slow.
0:35.0	And this is going to be a series.
0:37.0	We have a whole bunch of these things,
0:38.0	so we'll hit them in different hasty's along the way here.
0:41.0	My name is Scott Tullens Game, a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is Westboss.
0:47.0	Hey everybody, I'm coming at you live from a shed out my cottage, which is very cold in here right now but it's the quietest place.
0:56.6	We couldn't be any different right now. You have a two-con and a giant puffy jacket and I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt so I apologize that I'm feeling very
1:07.3	comfy here.
1:08.3	Didn't you just have like snow like a week ago?
1:10.3	Yeah but we also had like 75 degree weather the day before and like probably the day after, you know, Colorado weird like that. So that's how we do it.
1:19.4	I think that we, anytime we say any sort of temperature temperature we need to convert it to the other one so 75
1:27.2	American okay is 23.8 Celsius oh I thought you were just going to guess,
1:33.4	because I thought that would have been fun.
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