Optimize a website to gain at least a 90/100 for desktop and mobile on Google's PageSpeed Tool and run at 60 FPS while scrolling. Techniques utilized to optimize website include:

• Javascript and CSS minification
• Image compression
• Improving page's critical rendering path (CRP)
• Responsive images
• Google Chrome development tools

• Installation and Run
• Optimization Steps
• Creator
• Copyright and License

Grab code source:

• Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/brianquach/udacity-nano-front-optimization.git or download the zip here.
• Navigate to the directory where you cloned the repo or unzipped the file to and open folder dist.
• Use your favorite browser to open index.html.

Developers (optional): To run project's build process follow the following instructions:

• Install Gulp.
• Navigate to project's root folder.
• Run npm install to let npm install required Gulp plugins.
• Run gulp optimize.

Friendly reminder: Changes to JS and CSS or image files should be done in the src folder because that's where Gulp expects project assets to be.

• Asynchronously download non-critical javascript by adding async script attribute.
• Move importing CSS and Google Fonts to bottom of HTML body.
• Gulp task to compresses all images.
• Gulp task to create thumbnail version of pizzeria.jpg for index.html.
• Cache javascript document query variables to reduce javascript DOM lookup time.
• Refactor javascript in resizePizzas function to avoid layout reflow as much as possible.
• Refactor javascript in updatePositions function and DOMContentLoaded event trigger to avoid layout reflow.
• Move inline styles into CSS classes.
• Gulp task to create more efficient sizes of pizzeria.jpg for views/pizza.html.
• Gulp task to minify JS and CSS.

Brian Quach

• https://github.com/brianquach
• http://bkquach.com

Code copyright 2016 Brian Quach. Code released under the MIT license.