In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through all the reasons your website might be slow, and how you can troubleshoot a slow website such as issues on the server, large assets, caching, CSS, JavaScript, latency, and more.
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Show Notes 00:11 Welcome
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03:06 Sponsor: Sentry
05:15 What makes a website slow?
Uses.tech
06:29 Server Generation Times
13:33 Large payloads
Redis
Gzip
Brotli compression
Cloudflare
Cloudinary
18:13 Assets being too large
23:01 Caching assets
28:25 CDN
30:35 Caching 101
37:04 Render blocking requests
40:01 CSS
42:25 JavaScript
44:51 Latency
49:17 Flash of dark mode or unsigned out
55:00 Data uris
Content-visibility
vite-plugin-singlefile
Pool in your URL
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