Even Faster Web Sites covering loading scripts without blocking, coupling asynchronous scripts, and flushing the document early.

2. the importance of frontend performance 17% 83% iGoogle, primed cache 9% 91% iGoogle, empty cache

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5. Even Faster Web Sites Splitting the initial payload Loading scripts without blocking Coupling asynchronous scripts Positioning inline scripts Sharding dominant domains Flushing the document early Using iframes sparingly Simplifying CSS Selectors Understanding Ajax performance.......... Doug Crockford Creating responsive web apps............ Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer Writing efficient JavaScript............. Nicholas Zakas Scaling with Comet..................... Dylan Schiemann Going beyond gzipping............... Tony Gentilcore Optimizing images................... Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan

6. Why focus on JavaScript? AOL eBay Facebook MySpace Wikipedia Yahoo! YouTube

7. scripts block <script src=&quot;A.js&quot;> blocks parallel downloads and rendering 7 secs: IE 8, FF 3.5, Chr 2, Saf 4 9 secs: IE 6-7, FF 3.0, Chr 1, Op 9-10, Saf 3

8. MSN.com: parallel scripts Scripts and other resources downloaded in parallel! How? Secret sauce?! var p= g.getElementsByTagName(&quot;HEAD&quot;)[0]; var c=g.createElement(&quot;script&quot;); c.type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;; c.onreadystatechange=n; c.onerror=c.onload=k; c.src=e; p.appendChild(c) MSN

9. Loading Scripts Without Blocking XHR Eval XHR Injection Script in Iframe Script DOM Element Script Defer document.write Script Tag

10. XHR Eval script must have same domain as main page must refactor script var xhrObj = getXHRObject(); xhrObj.onreadystatechange = function() { if ( xhrObj.readyState != 4 ) return; eval(xhrObj.responseText); }; xhrObj.open('GET', 'A.js', true); xhrObj.send('');

11. XHR Injection var xhrObj = getXHRObject(); xhrObj.onreadystatechange = function() { if ( xhrObj.readyState != 4 ) return; var se=document.createElement('script'); document.getElementsByTagName('head') [0].appendChild(se); se.text = xhrObj.responseText; }; xhrObj.open('GET', 'A.js', true); xhrObj.send(''); script must have same domain as main page

13. Script DOM Element var se = document.createElement('script'); se.src = 'http://anydomain.com/A.js'; document.getElementsByTagName('head') [0].appendChild(se); script and main page domains can differ no need to refactor JavaScript

14. Script Defer <script defer src='A.js'></script> supported in IE and FF 3.1+ script and main page domains can differ no need to refactor JavaScript

15. document.write Script Tag document.write (&quot;<script type='text/javascript' src='A.js'> <script>&quot;); parallelization only works in IE parallel downloads for scripts, nothing else all document.write s must be in same script block

16. browser busy indicators

17. Load Scripts Without Blocking * Only other document.write scripts are downloaded in parallel (in the same script block).

18. and the winner is... XHR Eval XHR Injection Script in iframe Script DOM Element Script Defer Script DOM Element Script Defer Script DOM Element Script DOM Element (FF) Script Defer (IE) XHR Eval XHR Injection Script in iframe Script DOM Element (IE) XHR Injection XHR Eval Script DOM Element (IE) Managed XHR Injection Managed XHR Eval Script DOM Element Managed XHR Injection Managed XHR Eval Script DOM Element (FF) Script Defer (IE) Managed XHR Eval Managed XHR Injection Script DOM Element (FF) Script Defer (IE) Managed XHR Eval Managed XHR Injection different domains same domains no order preserve order no order no busy show busy show busy no busy preserve order

19. menu.js image.gif

21. before after menu.js image.gif menu.js image.gif

22. Loading Scripts Without Blocking * Only other document.write scripts are downloaded in parallel (in the same script block). !IE

36. technique 2: DOM Element and Doc Write Firefox & Opera – use Script DOM Element IE – use document.write Script Tag Safari, Chrome – no benefit; rely on Safari 4 and Chrome 2

39. asynchronous scripts wrap-up

46. performance analyzers (HPWS) YSlow Page Speed Pagetest VRTA neXpert combine JS & CSS X X X use CSS sprites X X use a CDN X X set Expires in the future X X X X X gzip text responses X X X X X put CSS at the top X X put JS at the bottom X avoid CSS expressions X X make JS & CSS external reduce DNS lookups X X minify JS X X X avoid redirects X X X X remove dupe scripts X remove ETags X X X

47. performance analyzers (EFWS) YSlow Page Speed Pagetest VRTA neXpert don't block UI thread split JS payload X load scripts async X inline JS b4 stylesheet X write efficient JS min. uncompressed size optimize images X X shard domains X X flush the document avoid iframes simplify CSS selectors X X

48. performance analyzers (other) YSlow Page Speed Pagetest VRTA neXpert use persistent conns X X X reduce cookies 2.0 X X X avoid net congestion X increase MTU, TCP win X avoid server congestion X remove unused CSS X specify image dims X use GET for Ajax 2.0 reduce DOM elements 2.0 avoid 404 errors 2.0 avoid Alpha filters 2.0 don't scale images 2.0 X optimize favicon 2.0

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