How i acheived a pretty good google page speed insights score
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Last year I decided to check out my own personal site in Google PageSpeed Insights. Even though it’s only a simple static flat-file site, Google didn’t give it a very good score. I decided to see if things could be improved. This presentation covers what I discovered, and what I was able to do about it.
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- 2. How I achieved a pretty good Google PageSpeed Insights Score
- 3. 98/100* on both Mobile and Desktop *On the home page at least…
- 6. Built using Jekyll, a static site generator No PHP, no database, just HTML, CSS and a tiny bit of JavaScript
- 7. First of all, why bother when the site already seemed pretty quick?
- 8. • It was a learning exercise for me • I wanted to see how good a score I could get • Plus, a certain amount of professional pride was at stake
- 9. • Even if your site feels fast, it’s important to resolve any underlying issues • They are likely to become more and more pronounced as a project scales up • Google PageSpeed Insights highlighted a number of problems • And scored the site 68/100 for mobile, and 75/100 for desktop
- 11. :(
- 12. My Approach
- 14. CSS is a render-blocking resource Inline critical CSS in the <head> to reduce network request latency The fewer HTTP requests the better The goal - render ‘above-the-fold’ content in one roundtrip to the server (~14kb)
- 15. Asynchronously loaded assets are not render- blocking Defer the remaining CSS using an async loader, such as this one by Filament Group https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS
- 16. However, that means introducing a dependency on some render-blocking JavaScript If you load CSS asynchronously you will need to deal with FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content)
- 17. IMO keeping it simple is often best Unless your CSS is rather large, just load it normally - the browser will cache it
- 18. In my case my minified CSS was under 10KB*, so I inlined the whole lot! *10KB is the recommended maximum size for inlined CSS
- 20. Use an async font loader
- 21. My site uses fonts from Typekit
- 22. Originally I had rather lazily used the standard font loading script <script src="https://use.typekit.net/vbu2ffi.js"></script> <script>try{Typekit.load({ async: true });}catch(e){}</script>
- 23. However, Google does not like this “Eliminate render-blocking Javascript and CSS in above-the-fold content”
- 24. The solution? Use an async font loading script This means the browser can carry on rendering the page without waiting for the fonts to load
- 25. What about FOUT (Flash of Unstyled Text)? Typekit adds helper classes to the <html> tag You can hook into them to initially hide, and then show text once the fonts have loaded .wf-loading .wf-active
- 27. Google recommends: If the script is small you can inline it to reduce network request latency Larger, external scripts should be loaded asynchronously so as not to block DOM construction
- 28. In my case the scripts used were small and non- critical So I inlined them at the bottom of the page
- 30. Minify HTML
- 31. You’ll have minimal gains in terms of bytes saved, but it’s one more thing ticked off the list It can be tricky to do, especially on dynamic sites, but on simple, static sites it shouldn’t be a problem On my site I used a Ruby gem, called minify- html - job done!
- 32. Enable Gzip compression on the server
- 33. Modern browsers can manage GZipped files on- the-fly Fewer bytes means faster downloads
- 34. Implementation Configure mod_deflate in your .htaccess file The h5bp project .htaccess file has a ‘Web Performance’ section you can copy and paste
- 36. In summary
- 37. • Inline critical CSS, defer the rest (or not) • Use an async font loader • Remove render-blocking JavaScript • Minify HTML • Enable Gzip compression on the server
- 38. The result…
- 39. Having done all that I managed a score of 98/100 on both mobile and desktop!
- 40. :)
- 42. Why not 100/100? “Leverage browser caching” Unfortunately I have no control over external resources and their cache headers: http://use.typekit.net/vbu2ffi.js http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
- 43. But I can live with that
- 44. What are your own experiences with web performance and SilverStripe?