Chapter 5: Improving Performance Perception with Pingdom and GTmetrix
by Tonino Jankov
In this article, we'll analyze our gallery application using the tools we explained in Performance Tools, and we'll look at possible ways to further improve its performance.
As per Performance Tools, please set up Ngrok and pipe to the locally hosted app through it, or host the app on a demo server of your own. This static URL will enable us to test our app with external tools like GTmetrix and Pingdom Tools.
We went and scanned our website with GTmetrix to see how we can improve it. We see that results, albeit not catastrophically bad, still have room for improvement.
The first tab — PageSpeed — contains a list of recommendations by Google. The first item ...
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