Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to learn about front-end web performance is to see what other people are doing right and doing wrong. In this edition of How Fast Is…? we analyze the Federal Communication Commission.
The FCC just launched a new website as part of a $1.35 million redesign of their online presence. The site looks beautiful and leverages a number of open source technologies likes Durpal. In this video we see some configuration issues and developer mistakes lead to a large number of fontend performance problems.
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I actually commented on this on their feedback thing like a month ago.
http://fccdotgov.uservoice.com/forums/105541-a-new-fcc-gov-feedback/suggestions/1679459-43-stylesheets-and-23-js-minify-and-combine?ref=title
So they can’t say they didn’t know!