How to make your web page faster before it even loads
August 29, 2024
As developers (and as front end developers in particular), we usually talk about web performance in the context of measuring what happens when we start to see things appear in a browser window, and when we can consume content or interact with the page.
This makes sense given that without anything to consume and/or interact with we don’t really have an experience to measure at all, but what about the events that happen before the first byte of a web page is received by the browser? Can we measure those events, and subsequently optimize them to make our web pages and applications load even faster?
Source: How to make your web page faster before it even loads | Product Blog • Sentry
What came before the Big Bang? WE don’t know, but we can speculate.
But we do know what happens before a page even begins to start downloading and it can have an impact on the performance of what comes after. Salma Alam-Naylor takes a look.
