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Speed is Essential for a
Great Web Experience

@andydavies




Digicure
Oct 2012
                           http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahockley/3576838608
Performance isn’t always a priority




                           http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomidea/247994072
“Has it loaded yet?”


                       http://www.flickr.com/photos/kindofindie/4099768084
Our perception of response time

  Instant

       Seamless                                                   Yawn!




100ms 1s                                                         10s




                  Response Time in Man-computer Conversational Transactions
                                                     Robert B. Miller, 1968
Our perception of response time

  Instant

       Seamless                                                           Yawn!




100ms 1s                                                                 10s

            3s - Recommended         6.5s - Alexa 2000
                 Load Time               Fall 2012


                          Response Time in Man-computer Conversational Transactions
                                                             Robert B. Miller, 1968
“50% more concentration when using
       badly performing web sites”
                                                    Foviance
                  http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3366991042
Effect of delay on abandonment rate...




      Abandonment rate over 200+ sites / 177+ million page views over 2 weeks - http://www.measureworks.nl / Gomez
Bing did some experiments




     +1s
                            $/
                             - 2.8%
                                      +
Wallmart made some improvements




     -1s                      +2%
Shopzilla cut page load time by 5 seconds!



  +12%          +25%                                -50%

   $$$

                       http://velocityconf.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/7709
Measuring page load time...


                              http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/7109538317
Synthetic Monitoring

                    4



                    3
Response Time (s)




                    2



                    1



                    0
                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 27 28 29 30
                                                        September 2012
But these aren’t our visitors…


                            http://www.flickr.com/photos/br1dotcom/4297736794
These are our visitors


                         http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/2681687374
Measure Real Users’ Experience

                         27%
Visitors (%)




                               13%



                    8%               8%
               6%                              6%

                                                               3%   3%
                                                          2%
                                                                         1%

               1    2    3     4     5         6          7    8    9    10
                                          Load Time (s)
Measure Real Users’ Experience

                         27%

                                                                              24%
Visitors (%)




                               13%



                    8%               8%
               6%                              6%

                                                               3%   3%
                                                          2%
                                                                         1%

               1    2    3     4     5         6          7    8    9    10   > 10
                                          Load Time (s)
Measuring Real Users - Google Analytics




Relies on Navigation Timing API, can add extra timing calls to page
Looking Deeper


                 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhector/3149051855
webpagetest.org
Waterfall for bbc.co.uk/news
mobitest.akamai.com
Bigger, Faster Servers?


                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/getbutterfly/6317955134
80% plus of page load time is on front-end

                                                                 Backend
 news.bbc.co.uk
                                                                 Frontend
      ebay.co.uk

debenhams.co.uk

   direct.gov.uk

   amazon.co.uk

  mumsnet.com

  guardian.co.uk

                   0   1.25          2.5                3.75                5

                              Measured on residential ADSL line using Chrome 19
Fix slow server responses first




    4 seconds!
Bandwidth (often) isn’t the bottleneck



2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5


  0s                   5s                                      10s

                 news.bbc.co.uk tested via webpagetest.org throttled at 1.5Mbps
                                    (bursts over 1.5Mbps are artefact of testing)
“More Bandwidth Doesn’t Matter (much)”
                                                                                    Mike Belshe




                 3.11s
Page Load Time




                         1.95s
                                 1.63s
                                         1.50s    1.44s    1.41s    1.39s   1.38s     1.37s   1.36s




                  1       2       3       4         5       6        7       8          9         10
                                                 Bandwidth (Mbps)
Impact of Latency


                     4



                     3
Page Load Time (s)




                     2



                     1




                         0   20   40   60   80    100    120    140     160   180   200   220   240
                                                 Round Trip Time (ms)
Minimum round trips to download a file

                                                             (TCP Segments)
285kB


214kB


143kB


 71kB

 Size
        1   2    3    4   5   6     7      8      9     10      11

        Round Trips               TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance
                                                                  John Rauser
Going Faster…




                http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2464769129/
Put your pages on a diet
                           http://www.flickr.com/photos/europedistrict/4537909259
Cut down number of HTTP requests
Move the content closer


                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesjordan/2198988999
Organise content so it’s easy to load




                            http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemsweb/4363548805
What’s the web made of?

                                                         Images
                                                         Scripts
                                                         Stylesheets
                                                         HTML
                                                         Flash
                                                         Other




                   Composition of ‘average’ web page via httparchive.org
Images are 64% of an ‘average’ web page




                        http://www.flickr.com/photos/zaprittsky/4520788183/
Bitmapped Images




    JPEG                            PNG                           GIF


       Optimise, Optimise, Optimise!
           (jpegmini, pngmini, Smush.it, ImageOptim, Gifsicle etc.)
New Devices, New Challenges...




                2 x Resolution = 4 x Pixels!

                           http://www.flickr.com/photos/roopaw/6985954465
Some Alternatives




     CSS                SVG                Fonts


   Watch SVG sizes not always smaller than bitmap!
Don’t block the browser...




                             http://www.flickr.com/photos/barteko/6128499314
news.bbcimg.co.uk
                         static.bbc.co.uk




Browsers can download resources in parallel
But Sometimes... The Waterfall of Doom!




                  2 seconds! (nearly)
The Script Tag



        <script src=″…″></script>
The Script Tag



         <script src=″…″></script>



    Until the script has executed, the rendering of
            all elements below is blocked!
“Virgin Media Broadband ISP Users
Affected by Website Routing Woes”
                                                            ISP Review, May 26, 2012




Customer jcmm33 said:
“Same issue here as well, been like this all day. Sites like
autotrader.co.uk don’t appear to be accessible, others like
the telegraph.co.uk are waiting on other components to
download (content from sites like cg-global.maxymiser.com,
pixel.quantserve.com).”



     http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/05/uk-virgin-media-broadband-isp-users-affected-by-website-routing-woes.html
Impact on The Telegraph…




                           http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
Impact on The Telegraph…




                           http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
Impact on The Telegraph…




Same issue affected many other sites   http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
Load Third Party scripts asynchronously


 <script type="text/javascript">
   function() {
     var js = document.createElement('script');
     js.async = true;
     js.src = 'myscript.js';
     var e = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
     e.parentNode.insertBefore(js, first);
   })();
 </script>




 async attribute may be option but not supported by IE & Opera
The Challenge of Mobile

                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/3281555681
Argh... My brain hurts!

                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/corneveaux/3248566797
Don’t have to do it all by hand

            http://www.flickr.com/photos/simeon_barkas/2557059247
Performance isn’t just for Christmas

                     Measure




          Optimise             Analyse
Measure Impact on Business Goals




                           http://www.flickr.com/photos/safari_vacation/5961260280
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/6212582593
@andydavies
         andy@asteno.com
http://www.slideshare.net/andydavies




                       http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/5024494612
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Following pictograms courtesy of The Noun Project

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Speed is Essential for a Great Web Experience

  • 1. Speed is Essential for a Great Web Experience @andydavies Digicure Oct 2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahockley/3576838608
  • 2. Performance isn’t always a priority http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomidea/247994072
  • 3. “Has it loaded yet?” http://www.flickr.com/photos/kindofindie/4099768084
  • 4. Our perception of response time Instant Seamless Yawn! 100ms 1s 10s Response Time in Man-computer Conversational Transactions Robert B. Miller, 1968
  • 5. Our perception of response time Instant Seamless Yawn! 100ms 1s 10s 3s - Recommended 6.5s - Alexa 2000 Load Time Fall 2012 Response Time in Man-computer Conversational Transactions Robert B. Miller, 1968
  • 6. “50% more concentration when using badly performing web sites” Foviance http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3366991042
  • 7. Effect of delay on abandonment rate... Abandonment rate over 200+ sites / 177+ million page views over 2 weeks - http://www.measureworks.nl / Gomez
  • 8. Bing did some experiments +1s $/ - 2.8% +
  • 9. Wallmart made some improvements -1s +2%
  • 10. Shopzilla cut page load time by 5 seconds! +12% +25% -50% $$$ http://velocityconf.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/7709
  • 11. Measuring page load time... http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/7109538317
  • 12. Synthetic Monitoring 4 3 Response Time (s) 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 27 28 29 30 September 2012
  • 13. But these aren’t our visitors… http://www.flickr.com/photos/br1dotcom/4297736794
  • 14. These are our visitors http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/2681687374
  • 15. Measure Real Users’ Experience 27% Visitors (%) 13% 8% 8% 6% 6% 3% 3% 2% 1% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Load Time (s)
  • 16. Measure Real Users’ Experience 27% 24% Visitors (%) 13% 8% 8% 6% 6% 3% 3% 2% 1% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > 10 Load Time (s)
  • 17. Measuring Real Users - Google Analytics Relies on Navigation Timing API, can add extra timing calls to page
  • 18. Looking Deeper http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhector/3149051855
  • 22. Bigger, Faster Servers? http://www.flickr.com/photos/getbutterfly/6317955134
  • 23. 80% plus of page load time is on front-end Backend news.bbc.co.uk Frontend ebay.co.uk debenhams.co.uk direct.gov.uk amazon.co.uk mumsnet.com guardian.co.uk 0 1.25 2.5 3.75 5 Measured on residential ADSL line using Chrome 19
  • 24. Fix slow server responses first 4 seconds!
  • 25. Bandwidth (often) isn’t the bottleneck 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0s 5s 10s news.bbc.co.uk tested via webpagetest.org throttled at 1.5Mbps (bursts over 1.5Mbps are artefact of testing)
  • 26. “More Bandwidth Doesn’t Matter (much)” Mike Belshe 3.11s Page Load Time 1.95s 1.63s 1.50s 1.44s 1.41s 1.39s 1.38s 1.37s 1.36s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bandwidth (Mbps)
  • 27. Impact of Latency 4 3 Page Load Time (s) 2 1 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 Round Trip Time (ms)
  • 28. Minimum round trips to download a file (TCP Segments) 285kB 214kB 143kB 71kB Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Round Trips TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance John Rauser
  • 29. Going Faster… http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2464769129/
  • 30. Put your pages on a diet http://www.flickr.com/photos/europedistrict/4537909259
  • 31. Cut down number of HTTP requests
  • 32. Move the content closer http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesjordan/2198988999
  • 33. Organise content so it’s easy to load http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemsweb/4363548805
  • 34. What’s the web made of? Images Scripts Stylesheets HTML Flash Other Composition of ‘average’ web page via httparchive.org
  • 35. Images are 64% of an ‘average’ web page http://www.flickr.com/photos/zaprittsky/4520788183/
  • 36. Bitmapped Images JPEG PNG GIF Optimise, Optimise, Optimise! (jpegmini, pngmini, Smush.it, ImageOptim, Gifsicle etc.)
  • 37. New Devices, New Challenges... 2 x Resolution = 4 x Pixels! http://www.flickr.com/photos/roopaw/6985954465
  • 38. Some Alternatives CSS SVG Fonts Watch SVG sizes not always smaller than bitmap!
  • 39. Don’t block the browser... http://www.flickr.com/photos/barteko/6128499314
  • 40. news.bbcimg.co.uk static.bbc.co.uk Browsers can download resources in parallel
  • 41. But Sometimes... The Waterfall of Doom! 2 seconds! (nearly)
  • 42. The Script Tag <script src=″…″></script>
  • 43. The Script Tag <script src=″…″></script> Until the script has executed, the rendering of all elements below is blocked!
  • 44. “Virgin Media Broadband ISP Users Affected by Website Routing Woes” ISP Review, May 26, 2012 Customer jcmm33 said: “Same issue here as well, been like this all day. Sites like autotrader.co.uk don’t appear to be accessible, others like the telegraph.co.uk are waiting on other components to download (content from sites like cg-global.maxymiser.com, pixel.quantserve.com).” http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/05/uk-virgin-media-broadband-isp-users-affected-by-website-routing-woes.html
  • 45. Impact on The Telegraph… http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
  • 46. Impact on The Telegraph… http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
  • 47. Impact on The Telegraph… Same issue affected many other sites http://bit.ly/Ncy7Rd
  • 48. Load Third Party scripts asynchronously <script type="text/javascript"> function() { var js = document.createElement('script'); js.async = true; js.src = 'myscript.js'; var e = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; e.parentNode.insertBefore(js, first); })(); </script> async attribute may be option but not supported by IE & Opera
  • 49. The Challenge of Mobile http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/3281555681
  • 50. Argh... My brain hurts! http://www.flickr.com/photos/corneveaux/3248566797
  • 51. Don’t have to do it all by hand http://www.flickr.com/photos/simeon_barkas/2557059247
  • 52. Performance isn’t just for Christmas Measure Optimise Analyse
  • 53. Measure Impact on Business Goals http://www.flickr.com/photos/safari_vacation/5961260280
  • 55. @andydavies andy@asteno.com http://www.slideshare.net/andydavies http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/5024494612
  • 56. Credits All photographs copyright original owners on flickr.com Following pictograms courtesy of The Noun Project

Editor's Notes

  1. Andy Davies\n\nSpecialise in making web sites faster, more reliable and helping them scale as they grow\n\nSlides complete will go on Slideshare in the next day or so\n\nIf anyone has any questions or comments feel free to send me a tweet...\n\n\n
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  4. How we perceive response times\n\nStrangeloop Networks research into load times of Alexia Top 2000 ecommerce sites \n - Average page load time 11.21s\n - Best 2.2x, worst 40.2s!\n - Only 13 loaded in less that 5s\n\nOur perception of load time is off:\n- Our expectation is faster\n- Perceive load time as 15% slower than reality\n- Recount experience as 35% slower\nStoyan Stefanov - Psychology of Performance\n
  5. Retail task - find and buy a laptop on a leading e-commerce site\nInsurance task - find and buy personal travel insurance on an insurance website. \nEEG &amp; EOG, camera\n
  6. \n\nAlso people&amp;#x2019;s perception of time is faulty... (Stoyan Stefanov, Psychology of Performance)\n - Average person perceives page takes 15% longer to load that reality\n - Will recount it as 35% longer when talking to others\n\n
  7. Google - 400ms delay- searches down 0.6%\nAmazon - 100 ms delay - sales down 1%\n
  8. Walmart2% increase in conversion rate for every 1 second reduction\n
  9. ShopzillaUptime 99.51% &gt; 99.97\n\nMozillareduced load time by 2.2 secs = 60 million extra downloads / year\n\nYahootraffic went up 9% for every 400ms improvement\n\nNetflix: Reduced outbound bandwidth by 43%\n\nKerboodle: Reduced hosting costs by over &amp;#x20AC;30,000 per year\n\n
  10. How many have websites?\n\nHow many think theirs is fast?\n\nHow many measure?\n
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  14. We are not real users...\n\n&amp;#x201C;My own developer hardware is not representative of the real world, and will be mindful of limited hardware, poor latency, and low bandwidth situations&amp;#x201D;\nA Front End Engineer&amp;#x2019;s Manifesto\n@zachleat\nhttp://f2em.com/\n\nActual page load times from a real site, note huge peak of over 10 seconds\n\nMany external factors can affect page load time:\n\n- Browser\n- How they are connected ADSL / mobile / public WiFi\n- Bandwidth\n- Latency\n- Anti-virus\n- Network kit\n- etc\n\nThese factors are beyond our control but to get a true picture of page load times we must measure them in the visitors browser.\n
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  16. Navigation Timing API \n - Firefox 7+, IE9+, Chrome 6+, Chrome on ICS\n - NO SAFARI - OS X or iOS!!!\n\nCan script to add extra timings\n\nLow sample rate\n\nAverages!!!\n\nIncrease sample rate from 1% to 100% add:\n\n_gaq.push([&apos;_setSiteSpeedSampleRate&apos;, 100]);\n\nPage load time data collected by default since 16th Nov 2011\n\nGood description of how it works on StackOverflow\n\n
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  21. Some server performance issues can be improved by throwing hardware at it e.g. faster processors, more RAM (Databases love RAM), faster disks.\n\nBut should still look at optimising the back-end as it&amp;#x2019;s an important part of the picture e.g. DB tuning, architectures, reverse proxies etc.\n\nEven without tuning the server can still improve page load times by &amp;#x201C;flushing early&amp;#x201D;\n\n
  22. Even higher on mobile\n
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  24. Bursting over 1.5Mbps = Testing Artefact\n
  25. Mike Belshe - &amp;#x201C;More Bandwidth Doesn&amp;#x2019;t Matter (much)&amp;#x201D;\n(http://www.chromium.org/spdy/More_Bandwidth_Doesn_t_Matter_2_%282%29.pdf)\n\nBandwidth - Throughput, how much can be download in a given time\nLatency - Time between making the request and receiving the response\nTCP Slow-start - new connections take time to work up to &amp;#x2018;max&amp;#x2019; throughput\n\nConnections aren&amp;#x2019;t synchronous e.g. ADSL - faster download than upload, so requests are much slower (but fortunately generally smaller)\n\n\n
  26. Mike Belshe - &amp;#x201C;More Bandwidth Doesn&amp;#x2019;t Matter (much)&amp;#x201D;\n(http://www.chromium.org/spdy/More_Bandwidth_Doesn_t_Matter_2_%282%29.pdf)\n\nBandwidth - Throughput, how much can be download in a given time\nLatency - Time between making the request and receiving the response\nTCP Slow-start - new connections take time to work up to &amp;#x2018;max&amp;#x2019; throughput\n\nConnections aren&amp;#x2019;t synchronous e.g. ADSL - faster download than upload, so requests are much slower (but fortunately generally smaller)\n\n\n
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  29. Compress (gzip / deflate) all text based content - html, js, css, xml, json (and other uncompressed components e.g. ico)\n\nMinify JS and CSS (not everyone can get gzipped content)\n\nOptimise images: correct format + tools \n- jpg: lossy\n- png: lossless (often more efficient than gif. Photoshop screws up transparency)\n- gif:animated \n\nGreat reference for image optimisation - http://www.bookofspeed.com/chapter5.html\nhttp://jpegmini.com is a new tool for crunching jpegs, uses perceptual encoding, good results\n\nUse CSS / SVG / Canvas instead of images e.g. rounded corners\n\nLean markup\n- html: avoid DIVitis, HTML5 can be more brief\n- css: @stubornella&amp;#x2019;s OOCSS (https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki/faq)\n\nStatic content from cookieless domains (but should CSS come from the same domain?)\n\nRemove superfluous headers\n
  30. Merge up\n - CSS\n - JS\n\n - CSS sprites\n - Datauri&amp;#x2019;s\n - Pictogram fonts \n - Standard characters\n\nLazy load e.g. images\n\n
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  34. Images form on average 59% of site content (exc video and audio) \n\nRetina displays complicate things - time for vectors / fonts?\n
  35. What about PNGs and transparency? - need to cover the issues\n
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  37. Watch CSS effects on mobile\n\nCheck size - map is actually smaller as PNG 22.7KB / SVG 108KB!\n\nFont - Heydings by Heydon Works\n
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  42. Also CSS and fonts - anything that can block\ncg-global.maxymiser.com\n
  43. What if they are slow? down? Or even blocked - country, corporate firewall etc.?\n\nStart render 3.7s vs 24.5s\n\nLoad8s vs 30.4s\n\nLateRooms, Autotrader plus many others... for three days (started on a Fri)!!!\n
  44. What if they are slow? down? Or even blocked - country, corporate firewall etc.?\n\nStart render 3.7s vs 24.5s\n\nLoad8s vs 30.4s\n\nLateRooms, Autotrader plus many others... for three days (started on a Fri)!!!\n
  45. Don&amp;#x2019;t blindly add third party scripts to a site\n\nMany social sites now have async versions, use the latest snippet.\n\nAddThis doesn&amp;#x2019;t - don&amp;#x2019;t use it\n\nOpenDNS blocked Google&amp;#x2019;s jQuery CDN!\n\nh5bp includes html5shiv from googlecode - it&amp;#x2019;s only 1KB, quicker to load from own site\n
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  48. Some things can be automated e.g. compression, minification, merging, image compression plus more sophisticated optimisations.\n\nFrom plugins for Wordpress and web servers, appliances that sit in front of your server farm through to cloud-based optimisation services.\n\nOther are a little more difficult e.g. flush early, improving backed performance, asynchronous loading scripts etc.\n\nAutomation products / tools...\n\nFramework support\n Asset pipeline (Rails)\n Resources plugin (Grails)\n Webassets (Python)\n Assetic (PHP)\n\nCMS plugins\n - W3 Total Cache for Wordpress\n\nServer plugins\n - mod_pagespeed (Apache)\n - reduce requests (IIS)\n - Aptimize (IIS) (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Webo (&amp;#xA3;)\n\nAppliances\n - Strangeloop (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Traditional ADCs do some of this e.g. compression\n\nCloud services\n - Strangeloop (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Torbit (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Blaze.io (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Yotta (&amp;#xA3;)\n - Google&amp;#x2019;s PageSpeed service\n
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