Fast by default - rebuilding Algolia's website

Speed is one of our main features at Algolia. Learn how we improved load time on 3G by reducing file size by 600% and progressively enhanced it for network resilience.

Topics:

• Dropping legacy dependencies and cleaning codebase

• Using SW to create a achieve network resilience

• The benefits and speed improvements of using WebP

• Enabling server push for critical assets

• Hidden bottlenecks and overlooked tricks that had a big impact on load time

• What’s next? Brotli/better font loading etc

Jonas Badalic (https://twitter.com/jonasbadalic) is front-end developper @algolia