Website Performance Optimization portfolio project

Your challenge, if you wish to accept it (and we sure hope you will), is to optimize this online portfolio for speed! In particular, optimize the critical rendering path and make this page render as quickly as possible by applying the techniques you've picked up in the Critical Rendering Path course.

To get started, check out the repository, inspect the code,

Getting started

####Part 1: Optimize PageSpeed Insights score for index.html

Some useful tips to help you get started:

1. Check out the repository
2. To inspect the site on your phone, you can run a local server

$> cd /path/to/your-project-folder
$> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

1. Open a browser and visit localhost:8080
2. Download and install ngrok to make your local server accessible remotely.

$> cd /path/to/your-project-folder
$> ngrok http 8080

1. Copy the public URL ngrok gives you and try running it through PageSpeed Insights! Optional: More on integrating ngrok, Grunt and PageSpeed.

Profile, optimize, measure... and then lather, rinse, and repeat. Good luck!

####Part 2: Optimize Frames per Second in pizza.html

To optimize views/pizza.html, you will need to modify views/js/main.js until your frames per second rate is 60 fps or higher. You will find instructive comments in main.js.

You might find the FPS Counter/HUD Display useful in Chrome developer tools described here: Chrome Dev Tools tips-and-tricks.

Optimization Tips and Tricks

• Optimizing Performance
• Analyzing the Critical Rendering Path
• Optimizing the Critical Rendering Path
• Avoiding Rendering Blocking CSS
• Optimizing JavaScript
• Measuring with Navigation Timing. We didn't cover the Navigation Timing API in the first two lessons but it's an incredibly useful tool for automated page profiling. I highly recommend reading.
• The fewer the downloads, the better
• Reduce the size of text
• Optimize images
• HTTP caching

Customization with Bootstrap

The portfolio was built on Twitter's Bootstrap framework. All custom styles are in dist/css/portfolio.css in the portfolio repo.

• Bootstrap's CSS Classes
• Bootstrap's Components

Sample Portfolios

Feeling uninspired by the portfolio? Here's a list of cool portfolios I found after a few minutes of Googling.

• A great discussion about portfolios on reddit
• http://ianlunn.co.uk/
• http://www.adhamdannaway.com/portfolio
• http://www.timboelaars.nl/
• http://futoryan.prosite.com/
• http://playonpixels.prosite.com/21591/projects
• http://colintrenter.prosite.com/
• http://calebmorris.prosite.com/
• http://www.cullywright.com/
• http://yourjustlucky.com/
• http://nicoledominguez.com/portfolio/
• http://www.roxannecook.com/
• http://www.84colors.com/portfolio.html

Updates

• Losslessly compressed pizzeria image. Created a copy of the image and resized it to 100x75 so that the image is only as large as it needs to be
• Minifed HTML
• Inlined and compress CSS
• Added async to javascript file
• Added width and height attributes to image tags
• Switched querySelectorAll & querySelector with the more efficent getElementsByClassName and getElementById
• Moved DOM queries such as items, movingPizzas, dx and newwidth out of for loops as it is not necessary for them to be iterated over. This created a significant jump in performance.
• In DOMContentLoaded, the amount of pizzas created for rendering is now calculated based upon the size of the screen, rather than using the provided fixed value of 200