Frontend Performance Engineering

🎓 **Course Title: Frontend Performance Engineering** --- ### 🚀 **Course Headline:** Unlock the Secrets of Blazing Fast Websites! --- **Frontend Performance Engineering: Master the Art of Building Lightning-Fast Websites!** Welcome to the comprehensive course where you'll dive deep into the world of Front-end Performance Engineering. In this course, led by the experienced Sid Sriram, you will learn how to optimize your web applications for peak performance, ensuring that your users enjoy a smooth and responsive experience every time they visit your site. ### **Course Description:** --- **Module 1: Introduction to Front-end Performance Engineering** 🏗️ *1.1 What is Front-end Performance Engineering?* 🤔 Discover the fundamentals of performance engineering and learn how it differs from traditional testing and optimization techniques. *1.2 Why Front-end Performance Matters?* 📈 Understand the importance of front-end performance in user satisfaction, SEO rankings, and business KPIs. *1.3 Key Metrics for Measuring Performance* 📊 Get to grips with the critical metrics that define performance on the web, such as First Meaningful Paint (FMP), Time to Interactive (TTI), and Total Blocking Time (TBT). *1.4 Tools for Performance Measurement and Analysis* 🛠️ Explore a variety of tools and software that can help you measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of your web applications. --- **Module 2: Understanding Web Performance Fundamentals** 🌐 *2.1 HTTP Basics and Performance Implications* 📘 Learn the intricacies of HTTP/1.x & HTTP/2, and how they can affect the performance of your web applications. *2.2 Browser Rendering Process* 🖥️ Dive into how modern browsers render pages, including the critical rendering path, and how this affects user experience. *2.3 Critical Rendering Path* 🎯 Optimize your web application's critical rendering path to ensure that the above-the-fold content loads quickly and effectively. *2.4 Network Performance Optimization* 🔧 Understand how DNS, TCP/IP handshakes, and server response times impact load performance. *2.5 Caching Strategies* 📚 Learn advanced caching strategies to reduce load times and improve user experience on repeat visits. --- **Module 3: Optimizing Web Assets** 🖼️ *3.1 Optimizing Images: Formats, Compression, and Lazy Loading* 📸 Master the art of optimizing images for the web by choosing the right formats, compressing them without losing quality, and implementing lazy loading. *3.2 Minification and Bundling of CSS and JavaScript* ⚙️ Learn how to minify your CSS and JavaScript files and bundle them for optimal load times and performance. *3.3 Efficient Font Loading Techniques* 🅰️ Discover techniques to efficiently load fonts without slowing down your website. *3.4 Defer vs. Async Loading of Scripts* ⏳ Understand the nuances between defer and async script loading, and how this can impact performance. *3.5 Handling Third-party Scripts and Dependencies* 🤝 Learn how to manage and optimize third-party scripts and dependencies to prevent performance bottlenecks. --- **Module 4: Responsive Web Design for Performance** 📱 *4.1 Responsive Design Principles and Techniques* 🔄 Explore the principles of responsive design and how they can be optimized for performance. *4.2 Viewport Optimization* 🔍 Master viewport meta tags, aspect ratios, and media queries to ensure your website looks great on any device. *4.3 Media Queries and Breakpoints* 🖼️ Learn how to effectively use media queries and breakpoints to serve the right content for any screen size or resolution. *4.4 Adaptive Images and Media* 📷 Understand the importance of adaptive images and media for performance optimization on various devices and connections. --- **Module 5: JavaScript Performance Optimization** 🚀 *5.1 Identifying and Eliminating JavaScript Bottlenecks* 🔍 Learn techniques to identify and eliminate JavaScript bottlenecks that can slow down your web application. *5.2 Reducing Execution Time with Optimized Algorithms* ⏱️ Discover how optimizing algorithms can lead to significant performance improvements in your JavaScript code. *5.3 Memory Management and Garbage Collection* 🗑️ Get to grips with memory management strategies, including garbage collection, to prevent memory leaks. *5.4 Async Programming and Promises* ⏱️ Understand the power of asynchronous programming with promises to improve the responsiveness of your applications. *5.5 Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for Performance* 🌐📱 Learn how Progressive Web Apps can enhance performance and provide a seamless user experience across devices. --- **Module 6: CSS Performance Optimization** 🎨 *6.1 Efficient CSS Selectors* ✂️ Discover the most efficient CSS selectors to minimize layout thrashing and reflow, which can slow down your site. *6.2 CSS Preprocessing and Postprocessing* ✨ Learn about preprocessors like Sass or LESS, and postprocessors like Autoprefixer, to streamline your CSS workflow for performance. *6.3 Critical CSS Generation* 🔧 Understand how to extract critical CSS for fast rendering of above-the-fold content. --- Enroll in this course to take your web performance skills to the next level and become a front-end optimization expert! With practical examples and hands-on projects, you'll be able to apply these techniques to real-world scenarios and make a tangible impact on performance metrics such as load time, Time to First Byte (TTFB), and page speed index.