Bulky Bricks Inc.

Bulky Bricks is a demo website that is used by @rposbo and @deanohume to showcase automating web performance using modern tools.

The before and after versions of the Bulky Bricks website highlights how good web performance practices can really improve web page load times.

References

• Mozilla 2.2 seconds: https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/2010/04/05/firefox-page-load-speed-%E2%80%93-part-ii/
• whatdoesmysitecost.com
• getmdl.io/started
• webpagetest.org
• nodejs.org
• httparchive.org
• https://github.com/ligershark/AzureJobs
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/08/understanding-critical-css/
• http://www.iis.net/downloads/community/2013/05/iispeed
• http://modpagespeed.com/
• https://developers.google.com/web/tools/starter-kit/

Gulp vs Grunt

Plugins

• http://gruntjs.com/plugins
• http://gulpjs.com/plugins/

Watchers & Stars

• https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt
• https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp

Packages

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp