Introduction to Front End Performance Optimization

92-minute Development Tools Course

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About this Course

People want to use websites that load quickly, and every second counts. If a website takes more than 3 seconds to load, you can lose 40% of your audience. Every additional second in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. In these lessons, we're going to take a slow website and make it load faster using front end performance optimization. By the end, you'll know many practical techniques that can speed up any website.

What you'll learn

  • Performance measurement
  • Reduce HTTP requests
  • CSS and JavaScript minification

Teacher

  • Nick Pettit

    Nick is a teacher at Treehouse and an independent game developer. His Twitter handle is @nickrp.

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