Business Aspects of High Performance Websites

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Very High PerformanceWebsitesThe Next Competitive Advantage*

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Me

_Software Developer at SinnerSchrader_JavaScript Victim Extraordinair_http://nonblocking.io_@cramforce

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Faster,more responsiveWebsitesperform significantly better

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Higher Conversion

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Longer, Yes LongerDuration on Site

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More Page Impressions

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Load time now a≠ects Search Ranking

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Go watchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0

Proof

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500 ms slower20% drop in tra∞c

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100 ms slower1% drop in sales

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1000 ms fasterDownload Page2,7% better conversion

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5000 ms faster12% better conversion

Potential

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8300 ms load time6000 ms timewasted

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2900 ms load time2200 ms timewasted

What‘s a girl to do?

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Win the Warin the Frontend

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FrontendBackend

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Now Some Very Easy Rules

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Make fewer HTTP requestsUse a Content Delivery Network (CDN)Add Expires headersCompress components with gzipPut CSS at topPut JavaScript at bottomAvoid CSS expressionsMake JavaScript and CSS externalReduce DNS lookupsMinify JavaScript and CSSAvoid URL redirectsRemove duplicate JavaScript and CSSConfigure entity tags (ETags)Make AJAX cacheableUse GET for AJAX requestsReduce the number of DOM elementsAvoid HTTP 404 (Not Found) errorReduce cookie sizeUse cookie-free domainsAvoid AlphaImageLoader filterDo not scale images in HTMLMake favicon small and cacheable

If it is so Great,why doesn‘t Everybody do it?

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Because it isHARD

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Web DevelopmentFinally isHard again

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Hard =Hard to Copy

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Hard to Copy =Potential USP

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You can build a better Website than your Competitor!

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Faster

CostRevenue

Slower

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20% of the possible optimizations get you 50% of the way

Not everything is a pareto distribution

Take Aways

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Performance is hard,hire the right People!

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3 Quick Wins to ask your „Webmaster“

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1. Do we do Domain-Sharding?

2. Do we load all JavaScript at the bottom of the page?

3. Do we minimize the JavaScript?

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Faster Websites =_ More PIs_ Higher Conversion_ Better SEO_ Better Karma

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Steve Soudershttp://stevesouders.com/

Fast by Defaulthttp://www.slideshare.net/hashc0de/fast-by-default-2400000

Stoyan Stefanovhttp://www.phpied.com/

High Performance Web Pages - 20 new best practiceshttp://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/high-performance-web-pages-20-new-best-practices

Don‘t make me waithttp://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/dont-make-me-wait-or-building-highperformance-web-applications

The Performance Business Pitchhttp://www.phpied.com/the-performance-business-pitch/

Nicole Sullivanhttp://www.stubbornella.org

Designing fast Websiteshttp://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/designing-fast-websites-presentation

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http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/7709

http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/03/31/firefox-page-load-speed-part-i/

http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/7579

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

More Sources

http://nonblocking.io

@cramforce

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