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TIL Web Performance with Javascript

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From Everything you need to know about Web Performance (in 5 Minutes)

Web Performance Tip 1:

Overall, we should be loading the most important JS first to get the website working.

Then everything else can be loaded later.

Web Performance Tip 2:

I've been thinking about Web Workers for a while.

Web Workers communicate to each other through messages.
So you can load all your third-party scripts onto your web worker, which then responds with 'Success' once it loads, so you can then interact with it.

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