Shrink The Web: How To Get Happier By Removing Crap
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Web pages keep ballooning: an example ThemeForest homepage weighs 3.56 MB with 35 images, 9 fonts, 5 scripts and takes >15s on 3G; average page now rivals Doom (2.39 MB). Reclaim bytes by image work—manual Save for Web (legacy) or squoosh cuts a 2.34 MB photo to 219 KB (91% smaller); use imagebot to auto-optimize. Text compression via gzip, bundling+minification, CDNs, Prepros or similar, and Lighthouse audits reduce payloads; measured bounce rate jumps past 50% at ~8–9s.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 2:06Agenda
- 8:28Moore's Law
- 9:41Broadband Speed Index
- 13:15Bounce Rates
- 18:23Export Save for Web Legacy
- 21:20Webassembly Pwa
- 22:40Export Options
- 25:08Imagebot
- 29:21Text Compression
- 29:38Server Side Compression
- 32:21Why Minify
- 33:51Prepros
- 35:11Cdns
- 36:58Paul Irish
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