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April 20th, 2020 × #webdev#javascript#performance

Hasty Treat - 5 More Things That Make Your Site Slow

In this episode Wes and Scott discuss 5 more performance tips to make your web applications faster, including bundling JavaScript code, enabling gzip compression, loading scripts asynchronously, and adding database indexes.

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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

06:38 - Not bundling code

  • Build process

08:24 - Not compressing code

11:45 - Loading JS asynchronously

16:42 - Missing indexes on DB

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