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

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 8080

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

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

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

How to run the page

Open the page in Google Chrome or preferred browser and navigate the sites.

Optimizations made for index.html

• Added an internal style sheet for index.html
• Made all scripts asynchronous in html as the google analytics script was making the page load very slowly.
• Made all images as small as possible, as close to the size being displayed on the page as possible
• Applied file optimizations for all the images

Optimizations made for pizza.html

• Added will-change: transform; to class .mover to make each pizza in the background an individual layer and found speed increase of approximately 0.2 ms
• Removed calculation of phase from for loop which removed forced synchronous layout
• Removed function determineDx and replaced with percentages for pizza size changes, also removes the issue with forced synchronous layout for pizza size changes