Using Google PageSpeed Insights to Improve Web Performance
This course covers how to analyze your web pages to make sure they are following known performance best practices and shows you how to implement these practices in an ASP.NET application.
What you'll learn
Developers today have access to multiple tools that can quickly analyze a web page for performance best practices and give specific suggestions on what items should be addressed. This course first covers the different analysis tools that are available. It then uses one of these tools, the Performance Scorecard Chrome extension to analyze a sample website. Then, the course walks through each of the important recommendations given by the extension and shows how to fix them. By the end of this course, you will have a firm grasp of the most important web performance issues and how to address them.
Table of contents
- Introduction to Image Recommendations 2m
- Understanding Scaled Images 3m
- Creating a Scaled Image 1m
- Analysis After Images Are Properly Sized 2m
- Optimize Images Recommendation 1m
- Understanding Lossless Image Compression 4m
- Tools for Lossless Image Compression 1m
- Analysis After Applying Lossless Image Compression 1m
- Image Optimization Wrap Up 2m
- Introduction 3m
- What Is Minification? 5m
- What Is Bundling? 5m
- Approaches to Bundling and Minification 3m
- Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5 5m
- Examining Bundling and Minification Changes in the Browser 4m
- PageSpeed Analysis After Bundling and Minification 2m
- Creating Bundles in ASP.NET 5 5m
- Using Bundled Content on Pages in ASP.NET 5 3m
- Thoughts on How to Organize Bundles 3m
- Summary 2m
About the author
David Berry is a software engineer with over 15 years of application development experience. He started developing software in Java 1.0 using an Oracle 7 backend. Making the switch to Microsoft .NET when it was released, he has worked with every version of .NET since. He has also worked with every version of Oracle since Oracle 7 and ever version of SQL Server since SQL Server 7. His experience spans a broad range of industries including semiconductors, financial services, insurance an gove... more