by Lemon 🍋 | at MinneBar 14 | 1:00 – 1:45 in Zeke Landres | View Schedule
Websites have doubled in size every three years. For reasons both understandable and idiotic, web developers continue to create bigger and more complicated web projects, and now your node folder is mining bitcoin and the average webpage is bigger than the 1993 video game DOOM. This is a trend we can change.
🐁 Let's shrink the web!
In this high-energy talk, we’re going to be looking at some easy wins for performance improvements like image optimization and javascript concatenation, that can actually make your users’ life better. In addition, we’re going to explore some very friendly process tools for doing all of that without days of editing config files.
Because a small website is an easy website, and an easy website means you can go home earlier.
Working as the lead developer of a downtown agency, Lemon spends a whole lot of time making websites. Like, over a hundred of them. Large sites for clients like General Mills and the Minnesota Wild, and small sites like damn.dog and idiots.win.
He also hosts a podcast called The F Plus which is probably not appropriate for your particular workplace.
