Software engineering · 5 min read
Web performance that customers actually notice
The handful of changes that make most websites feel dramatically faster.
Software engineering · 5 min read
The handful of changes that make most websites feel dramatically faster.
Slow sites lose customers quietly. The good news is that most of the gain comes from a few well-understood fixes.
Oversized PNGs are the most common problem. Serving correctly sized WebP or AVIF images, with width and height set, often cuts page weight by more than half.
Every script must be downloaded, parsed and run. Remove what you do not need and load the rest only when required.
Enable gzip or Brotli, and give static files long cache lifetimes, using versioned file names so updates still reach visitors.
A fast laptop on office wifi hides the truth. Test on a mid-range phone with a throttled connection.
Agree a maximum page weight and load time, and check it on every release so performance does not slowly erode.
Fast pages also help search visibility and conversion, so the effort tends to pay for itself.
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