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How I Made My Personal Website 10x Faster โšก

Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ on August 28, 2020

I'd recently recreated my personal website, and the page load time reduced to < 1.6s ๐Ÿ˜ฎ. You don't believe it? Check it out here to clear your do...
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Mฤrtiล†ลก Briedis

Check if your server uses gzip for serving content.

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Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

Another great tip, thanks Mฤrtins

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Paolo

gzip or brotli ?

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Haider Ali Punjabi
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Jasper Stephenson

Nuxt minifies all built code by default! No need to do it manually.
nuxtjs.org/api/configuration-build...

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Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

You're right Jasper.

That was an extra tip for whoever is using traditional HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Jose Gracia Berenguer

Hey, thanks for showcasing my extension in your post โ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธ. Great job with page btw!

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Jeff Chavez

This is really cool!

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Adam Greenough

Why not 100? ๐Ÿ˜„

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Aderibole Oluwajuwon Feyisayo

Nice article ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ.
Lazy loading components and code splitting also helps.

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Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

True โœ”๏ธ
Thanks for the tip chief ๐Ÿ™‡

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Jane Tracy ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป • Edited

Love the website. It's absolutely amazing : )

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Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

Thank you Jane โญ

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Asaolu Elijah ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ

Thanks for your kind review Koray.

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Kurt Starck

Try Nextjs for finer control of ssr/isr/csr