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JavaScript Start-up Performance

Henning Koch
February 10, 2017Software engineer at makandra GmbH

As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much more than shipping bytes down the wire. Once the browser has downloaded our page’s scripts it then has to parse, interpret & run them. In this post, we’ll dive into this phase for JavaScript, why it might be slowing down your app’s start-up & how you can fix it.

The article author also tested 6000+ production sites for load times. Apps became interactive in 8 seconds on desktop (using cable) and 16 seconds on mobile (Moto G4 over 3G).

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2017-02-10 13:32)