More than 80% of the load times of a web page is spent in the front-end; serving JavaScripts, CSS and other assets make your site really slow.

When trying to optimise the speed of a slow website you might start with investing in more hardware, or tools like Varnish and Memcache. But did you know that it's much easier and cheaper to invest in the front-end? By applying just a few tips you can improve the speed of your website dramatically.

You will learn why focussing on front-end is so important and how to apply some simple tweaks that will improve your site's performance.

AGENDA
Why is speed so important?
Focus on the low-hanging fruit
How to measure?
Serve content in the right order
Less data and less requests
Combine images in sprites using Sass
Configuring Apache
Content Delivery Networks
Related Drupal modules