A faster BBC News front page

#1

Post by cpeterso » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 6:24 AM UTC

A faster BBC News front page
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Re: A faster BBC News front page

#2

Post by deanclatworthy » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:57 AM UTC

Great. I religiously visit BBC news throughout the day. This definitely loads quicker than before.

That said, there is performance and then there is perceived performance. Why introduce an arbitrary fade-in animation on the images (aka a delay)? Just show them as soon as they are available from the lazy-loader. This makes it feel slower for me.

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#3

Post by kristianc » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:05 AM UTC

I find that BBC News is one of the best sites on the entire web for browsing with NoScript.

EDIT: This is what I get: http://imgur.com/a/Cg9sD

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#4

Post by chaz6 » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:21 AM UTC

Supporting http/2 will improve performance too!

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#5

Post by antigirl » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:23 AM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #3

I find that BBC News is one of the best sites on the entire web for browsing with NoScript. EDIT: This is what I get: http://imgur.com/a/Cg9sD

probably the only site you can use on the internet then

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#6

Post by wldlyinaccurate » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:24 AM UTC

deanclatworthy wrote: post #2

Great. I religiously visit BBC news throughout the day. This definitely loads quicker than before. That said, there is performance and then there is perceived performance. Why introduce an arbitrary fade-in animation on the images (aka a delay)? Just show them as soon as they are available from the lazy-loader. This makes it feel slower for me.

Agreed! Glad you mentioned the image fade-in. I was actually speaking to our UX team about it the other day, and I think we might get rid of it \o/

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#7

Post by DamonHD » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:26 AM UTC

I would also like the site NOT to be sending me a tonne of nugatory whitespace in the HTML, and to enable gzip/deflate as a minmum to reduce bandwidth...

Re: A faster BBC News front page

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Post by wldlyinaccurate » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:28 AM UTC

chaz6 wrote: post #4

Supporting http/2 will improve performance too!

H2 support is happening at a much higher level (like, the BBC-wide infrastructure team level) but I think it's coming pretty soon. We did some testing and saw a positive impact on all front-end metrics: first paint, interactive, DOM complete, document onload.

Re: A faster BBC News front page

#9

Post by DamonHD » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:31 AM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #3

I find that BBC News is one of the best sites on the entire web for browsing with NoScript. EDIT: This is what I get: http://imgur.com/a/Cg9sD

Well, other than the video segments which can take several interactions to enable and are even then not guaranteed to work..

Re: A faster BBC News front page

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Post by DamonHD » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 9:35 AM UTC

wldlyinaccurate wrote: post #8

chaz6 wrote: post #4

Supporting http/2 will improve performance too!

H2 support is happening at a much higher level (like, the BBC-wide infrastructure team level) but I think it's coming pretty soon. We did some testing and saw a positive impact on all front-end metrics: first paint, interactive, DOM complete, document onload.

Does Mr Butterworth help guide the H2 stuff?