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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Polish and Perf

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through quick tips to improve performance of your website, and the tools available to help diagnose and fix perf issues. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:50 Polish And Perf explained 02:05 What kinds of tools are available to improve performance Lighthouse in Chrome PageSpeed 09:32 Identify route caching and http caching 14:25 Partytown Partytown 15:19 Unnecessary network calls 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

Transcript

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

0:07.0

JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

0:12.0

Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development

0:17.0

treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!

0:24.0

Tolinsky!

0:26.0

Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about

0:32.0

Polish and Perf. We wrote the thing, we push the thing out, it exists. Now let's go

0:39.0

ahead and make this thing nice and shiny. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a

0:43.0

developer from Denver with me as always is Wes. Boss! Hey everybody! Excited to talk

0:49.0

about Polish and Perf? Yes, Polish and Perf. Polish and Perf. You know, Polish and

0:54.0

Perf is something that we all have to do as developers. We have to get things out into

0:58.0

the world. We have to have them working. But the most important part after you have

1:03.0

that is to have it be a nice, fast, smooth experience for your users. And this is

1:08.0

more than just bug finding and error finding. This is oftentimes really getting

1:12.0

down to the heart of what's causing performance issues. Now there's a whole

1:16.0

ton of different things that could be causing performance issues. But at the end of

1:20.0

the day, the big thing is we want to make sure that our pages are snappy,

1:25.0

responsive, they load in a reasonable amount of time, preferably as fast as

1:30.0

possible. And we want them to, you know, give our users the experience where

1:35.0

they're not just clicking and waiting for a couple of seconds, right? The world

1:38.0

of spas gave us a lot of really great immediate functionality in many ways.

1:43.0

But they've also given us a lot of loading spinners. So what can we do to

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