Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
Don't forget about HTTP/2! If your server platform supports it, the number of HTTP requests becomes less relevant. With CDNs and proxies, I have been bitten before by not reading the documentation or thoroughly understanding the platform I was using...the CDN and the web server had some opposing configuration settings which resulted in either a lot of wasted CPU cycles (CDN not supporting caching of resources encrypted by anything but gzip) or safe but effectively useless HTTP cache policies.
I have also learned to give extra scrutiny to third-party marketing/analytics scripts. I have seen plenty of scripts that refuse to be cached and insist on downloading several other scripts. In general, most of the organizations I have worked with are underutilizing their current analytics capabilities...throwing more analytics scripts on the page to generate more data that no one will ever read never helps.
Don't forget about HTTP/2! If your server platform supports it, the number of HTTP requests becomes less relevant. With CDNs and proxies, I have been bitten before by not reading the documentation or thoroughly understanding the platform I was using...the CDN and the web server had some opposing configuration settings which resulted in either a lot of wasted CPU cycles (CDN not supporting caching of resources encrypted by anything but gzip) or safe but effectively useless HTTP cache policies.
I have also learned to give extra scrutiny to third-party marketing/analytics scripts. I have seen plenty of scripts that refuse to be cached and insist on downloading several other scripts. In general, most of the organizations I have worked with are underutilizing their current analytics capabilities...throwing more analytics scripts on the page to generate more data that no one will ever read never helps.
Thanks for adding this point. I totally agree with you.