We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow (catchjs.com) 15 points by faitswulff 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] blacksqr 5y ago ↗ * Make as few requests as you can. Number of requests matters more than number of kilobytes transferred.* For the request you have to make, do them over HTTP2 or greater if you can.* Strive to avoid render blocking requests when you can, prefer async loading when possible.
[–] olliej 5y ago ↗ Biggest slowdown source was iframes in onlod handlers. Would be interesting to see what those iframes were for, or at least what proportion are ads and trackers.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 23.6 ms ] thread* For the request you have to make, do them over HTTP2 or greater if you can.
* Strive to avoid render blocking requests when you can, prefer async loading when possible.