Page size limited to 500KB? about front-end-checklist

[thedaviddias]

Hi @antarestupin, indeed I put that value at first based on some articles I read times ago. It's something that was already flagged in a previous ticket. I'm planning to review all these points and give more links after I launch the web app 😉.

Let's keep the issue open until we review it.

[antarestupin]

@thedaviddias I'm reading the latest version of Smashing Magazine's performance checklist and I see in the 7th section that they advise precise numbers concerning performance, to be exact:

• a First Meaningful Paint under 1 second
• a Time To Interactive under 5 seconds for the "average" configuration (a $200 Android on a slow 3G network with 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed) and under 2 seconds for repeat visits
• a critical file size under 170Kb gzipped

What do you think of using these numbers as a recommendation, or at least using the same kind of template?

[thedaviddias]

Absolutely @antarestupin, I thought about the same thing when I read the performance checklist. Feel free to push some modifications into the README :)

[thedaviddias]

@antarestupin Instead of page weight, maybe response-time is more relevant. We can for example, say "Your response-time need to be inferior to 10 seconds? What do you think? https://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-response-times/

[antarestupin]

@thedaviddias I agree, the initial goal should be expressed in term of seconds/ms as it's the actual user experience that you want to specify. But I don't think a strict value should be set in this checklist, because what's really important for the team is to define a goal, achieve it and keep it in consideration when changing things in the app. Then from this goal they can define an ideal page weight using tools like the one I mentioned above.

If you need inspiration for setting such a goal I recommend the RAIL model which defines ideal performance goals (for page load it's 1 second).

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[antarestupin]

Oops sorry I forgot to close this issue.