Page Weight Matters | Chris Zacharias
An excellent tale of performance optimisation …complete with a coda on looking behind the numbers when it comes to analytics data.
Tags: loading
filamentgroup/Southstreet
This is excellent! Scott, Wilto, and the gang at Filament Group have released the tools they use to help them craft performant responsive sites. Lots of excellent resources for conditional loading here.
An Ajax-Include Pattern for Modular Content | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
Scott walks through the code and thinking behind the conditional loading pattern on The Boston Globe site. This is such a useful and valuable pattern!
Progress Bar
A nice little bit of CSS for a page-loading animation. View source.
Post Web site loads too slowly - The Washington Post
Performance matters. Here, the Washington Post compares its own weak performance (hampered by ads and tracking shite) to the optimised experience of porn sites.
spin.js
An ingenious loading indicator that uses JavaScript instead of an animated .gif.
loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
A handy tool for checking page load times.
yepnope.js | A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills!
A nice’n’small lazy loader that should make life easier when it comes to pollyfilling browser support for nifty HTML5 or CSS3 features.
Home - Transloadit
A very handy looking API that turns file uploading (and conversion) into a service.
Pretty Loaded - preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship
A collection of Flash preloaders. Out of context, they make for surprisingly compelling viewing all together.
vidnik - Google Code
A handy Mac app from Google that allows you to record from your iSight and upload directly to YouTube.
Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
Generate your own animated .gif for Ajax apps.