Shrink The Web: How To Get Happier By Removing Crap
summary
Average webpages now often exceed the 1993 game Doom (2.39MB): an off‑the‑shelf WordPress theme clocks 3.56MB and 300 requests with 12–26s loads on 3G. Concrete wins: re-exporting a photo from Photoshop drops 2.34MB to 219KB — 91% smaller; use tools like Squash and imagebot for bulk optimization; prefer MozJPEG or WebP (beware browser support), SVG for logos, MP4 instead of GIF. Also enable gzip and bundling, minify assets, use CDNs, run Lighthouse and add loading=lazy for immediate gains.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:10Agenda
- 6:08Doom
- 7:53Full 2017
- 9:41Doom Correlation
- 11:59Moores Law
- 12:27Internet Speeds
- 15:18Bounce Rates
- 17:16Time is Real
- 17:56Thats A Lot
- 18:11Easy Wins
- 18:43Web Page Numbers
- 20:00Photoshop
- 24:09Squash
- 30:04Imagebot
- 32:09Images
- 35:49Text Compression
- 36:39GZIP
- 37:19Bundles
- 37:34Why Bundles
- 38:14Why Minify
- 38:34Big vs Minified
- 38:54Prefrosh
- 40:19CDNs
- 43:04Lighthouse
- 43:44Lighthouse Audit
- 45:29Lighthouse Improvements
- 47:34Everyone Can Improve
- 48:49Gary Bernard
- 49:34Hello World
- 50:54Write HTML
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