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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

by Ben Frain
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h
English
Packt Publishing
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Responsive Images

We should always aim to build websites and applications to be as lean as possible. The benefits of faster sites are well documented for all meaningful metrics. As far back as 2009, Google was publishing its findings on the importance of page speed: https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google_delayexp.pdf.

Images are by far the biggest contributor to website “weight,” a significant contributor to web page speed, or lack thereof. Looking at the data from the 2021 Web Almanac at https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/page-weight#images, we can see images accounting for almost twice as much weight as the next largest resource, JavaScript:

Figure 9.1: A bar chart showing that images are far and away the largest resource ...

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