10 Things That Can Make Your Page Faster

2019, we create more and more complex webapps, so naturally they begin to consist of more and more code needed to be downloaded.

As a result they are loading longer than they did previously. Average webpage in 2018 weighted 1.8 MB and it loaded approximately 8.5 second whereas it is advised for the page to load under 3 seconds. This is the magic line after which, on average, more than a half of the users would leave the page.

But does it have to be like this? Nothing suggests that the pace of growth of the internet apps will stop, so are we doomed? Let’s check that!

A baseline

Suppose you were developing an app yourself. And it would be let’s say… an instagram for stock photography professionals. I don’t know why you would do this but let’s imagine. You have spent some time on it, you even came up with a name – ImageGuru. But it isn’t performing well enough. It’s not as high in Google ranking as you would hope it to be and a lot of people are leaving the page before it even loaded! You are devastated but would like to check why it is so. You open the devtools, reload the page and see this… 82 MB of data downloaded and it in the end took more than 30s to load everything. Oh shoot… Gotta do something with it then.

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