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The only Front-End Performance Checklist that runs faster than the others.
One simple rule: Design and code with performance in mind!
How To Use
This checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for front-end developers to ensure their projects are optimized for performance. For each rule listed, you will find an explanation of:
- Why this rule is essential.
- How you can implement it.
Additionally, there will be links to tools and articles that offer further insights into the checklist items. This allows you to prioritize tasks based on their urgency with three levels of priority: Low, Medium, and High.
Performance Tools
Here’s a selection of tools that you can utilize to test and monitor the performance of your website:
- WebPagetest – Website Performance and Optimization Test
- Dareboost: Website Speed Test and Website Analysis (use the coupon WPCDD20 for -20%)
- Treo: Page Speed Monitoring
- GTmetrix Website Speed and Performance Optimization
- PageSpeed Insights
- Web.dev
- Pingdom Website Speed Test
- Make the Web Faster – Google Developers
- Sitespeed.io – Welcome to the wonderful world of Web Performance
- Calibre
For insights on optimizing your performance, check out tools like Pingdom for uptime monitoring and Uptime Robot.
Example: HTML Optimization
When optimizing HTML for performance, one essential step is minification. Think of your HTML as a recipe:
Imagine writing a detailed recipe with comments about why each step is important. While informative, when you’re cooking (loading a webpage), you want to streamline the process and make it as efficient as possible. Just like minimizing unnecessary steps can speed up your cooking, minification skips the explanatory comments, extra whitespace, and new lines—resulting in a leaner, faster-loading web page. This is especially critical in a world where every millisecond counts!
Following suit, ensure that CSS tags are placed before JavaScript tags, as this enables parallel downloads. This technique ensures the CSS is ready before any JavaScript tries to run, just like prepping your ingredients before the cooking begins!
Troubleshooting Tips
If you encounter any issues while implementing the Front-End Performance Checklist, here are a few troubleshooting steps:
- Double-check the order of your CSS and JavaScript files. Make sure CSS always loads first.
- Use performance tools to identify loading times and pinpoint areas for improvement.
- Consider using a CDN to speed up content delivery.
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