Web App Performance

Web application performance is affected by network latency, bandwidth, database queries, page size and many other factors.

Performance and load testing tools

Load testing resources

Web app performance resources

  • Web Performance 101 introduces web application loading performance. There is a ton of great information on JavaScript, CSS and HTTP optimization as well as tools to use.

  • Idle until urgent explains an issue the author found when measuring First Input Delay (FID) on his site and what techniques he used to fix the problem.

  • How to measure web app performance is a 20 minute code-first demo that shows how to get a realistic estimate for how many requests per second your web application will be able to handle.

  • Practical scaling techniques for websites examines how to improve your website performance with asynchronous task queues, database optimization and caching.

  • The [Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/bb924375(v%3dpandp.10) book from Microsoft is a gem. There are chapters on foundations of performance testing, modeling application usage and many other topics that are critical to working on web app performance.

  • awesome-scalability provides a list with a crazy number of scaling and performance optimization resources and tools by category.

  • Every Web Performance Test Tool provides a nice list of tools and provides short summaries of what each one can help with in identifying performance problems.

  • The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale examines the evolution from having to buy your own hardware from vendors to run a service to the current days of being able to rely on cloud providers for some or all workloads regardless of scale.

  • Scaling to 100k users covers the architecture scaling techniques commonly used to move up in serving users by orders of magnitude, for example from 100 to 1000.

  • Web Performance Recipes with Puppeteer digs into tracing through page rendering to measure performance and how to extract performance metrics from the Lighthouse tool for further analysis.

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Matt Makai 2012-2022