Improving web application performance
In this section, we will look at techniques that can be used to improve the performance of web applications. These techniques include, but are not limited, to:
- HTTP caching
- Compression
- Minification
- Bundling
- HTML optimization
- HTTP/2
- Content delivery networks (CDNs)
- Web font optimization
Leveraging HTTP caching
Many roundtrips between a client and a server may be necessary to load a page, and retrieving resources for that page from the server can take up significant amounts of time. The ability to cache resources that might be needed again so that they do not need to be transferred over the network on subsequent trips is an important part of improving web application performance.
Browsers are capable of caching data so that it doesn't need to be fetched from a server again. Resources such as CSS or JavaScript files might be shared across multiple pages of your web application. As a user navigates to various pages, they will need these resources multiple times. In...
