Faster Front End Performance

Focusing on making web pages render faster in browsers is an under hyped form of performance optimization. While most performance sessions focus on varnish, memcache, and other technologies to scale a site or make the server run more efficiently we will focus on making pages render faster in browsers. This includes image, JavaScript, and CSS optimization as well as some browser characteristics we can use to our advantage.

This type of performance optimization is something useful to almost any site. From those that serve up thousands of pageviews a month to those that serve up millions of them.

Front end performance is, also, an area where most Drupal sites have noticeable room for improvement. In reviewing numerous sites built with Drupal there are few that don't have a lot of room for improvement.

Note: This session has been combined with High Performance Theming

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