Shrink The Web: How To Get Happier By Removing Crap
summary
Average modern pages balloon past the original Doom (2.39 MB) — one ThemeForest demo home page is 3.56 MB and takes 15+ seconds on 3G — and that kills engagement. Practical wins shown: manual image optimization with Save for Web (Legacy) shrinks 2.34 MB to 219 KB (≈91%); squoosh drops 4.74 MB to ~130 KB (≈76%); automated bot optimizers like imagebot squeeze modest extra savings. Also use gzip, bundle and minify JS, lazy-load images, serve assets via CDNs and follow Lighthouse suggestions.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:14Website bloat problem
- 10:22Why bloat is growing
- 15:41Cost of slow websites
- 21:58Optimizing images
- 27:17Automating image optimization
- 33:35Image formats for performance
- 40:18Compressing text assets
- 43:03JavaScript bundling
- 49:04Using CDNs
- 52:13Auditing with Lighthouse
- 56:45JavaScript framework risks
- 1:00:17Write HTML
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