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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
Where should I put tags in HTML markup?
Solution: Lazy load JS as needed
Solution: Show HTML first, load JS in the footer
Solution: Use Async + Defer
16:42 - Missing indexes on DB
What is a DB index?
Where should you add them?
MongoDB Compass
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