Web Performance Optimzation

The document discusses web performance optimization and provides an overview of why it is important. It notes that speed impacts search engine rankings and user interactions. Performance impacts revenue, as websites gain weight over time from additional files and third parties that slow things down. The document outlines factors that affect performance like roundtrip latency, browser limits, and the delivery chain. It recommends ways to measure performance using Google's guidelines of sites loading in under 2 seconds. Suggested best practices are compressing content, optimizing images, minifying files, caching content, and merging files to improve performance.