Reduce size of a web application

Strategies

• Minify and compress source code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Use Tree Shaking → dead-code elimination
• Use a Minimalistic CSS Framework
• Reduce size of images → Image Optimization
• Remove custom fonts (see also Web Fonts)
• Moving code to the backend
• Reduce number of dependencies
• …

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🔗 References

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• Fixing import issues and tree shaking problems
• Replace libraries with custom code
• Moving code to the backend