Hasty Treat - 5 More Things That Make Your Site Slow
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes continue their discussion of website page speed — five more things that make your site slow!
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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