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Use speedlify’s AvatarSpeedlify to Continuously Measure Site Performance

June 29, 2020 #16 Popular

When launching a brand new web site, it’s fairly common to run testing tools to ensure that the site is fast and follows best practices. One popular tool to accomplish these goals is Google’s Lighthouse. It works great and is pretty comprehensive.

Here are some of the ways I’ve used Lighthouse to help test my sites:

Instantaneous measurement is a good first step. But how do we ensure that the site maintains good performance and best practices when deploys are happening every day? How do we keep the web site fast? The second step is continuous measurement. This is where Speedlify comes in. It’s an eleven_ty’s AvatarEleventy-generated web site published as an open source repository to help automate continuous performance measurements.

Source Code

  • Speedlify on GitHub

  • DIY: Run it manually, locally on your computer and check in the data to your repo.

  • Automated: If you want to automate it, Speedlify can run entirely self-contained on Netlify. Be aware that there’s a maximum of 15 minutes per build (if you do 3 runs each, I’d guess this will let you test a maximum of around 20 pages). Netlify’s free tier gives you 300 build minutes per month.

A very zoomed out screenshot of Speedlify

Next Steps

Speedlify is intended as a stepping stone to more robust performance monitoring solutions like:

Use it to sell ’em on the benefits and if you have budget, pay for something better 😅


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Zach Leatherman IndieWeb Avatar for https://zachleat.com/is a builder for the web at IndieWeb Avatar for https://cloudcannon.com/CloudCannon. He is the creator and maintainer of IndieWeb Avatar for https://www.11ty.devEleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 78 talks in nine different countries at events like Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, Jamstack Conf, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Netlify, Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS. Learn more about Zach »

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24 Comments
  1. Paul Applegate

    @papplegate

    You had me at pretty colorful graphs aka a dashboard.

  2. Stefan Judis

    @stefanjudis

    That is very cool! Thanks for sharing that Zach! Quick question about the netlify build cache, if you don't mind. 🙈 The history won't persist if I rebuild with "clear cache" or?

  3. The Realest

    @realglenndixon

    Will the official 11ty boards switch to this? Maybe update daily?

  4. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    It is very possible, they’re both using performance-leaderboard. Though it will require more work to orchestrate 348 sites and stay under that 15m build limit 😅

  5. Nicolas Hoizey

    @nhoizey

    Wow, I was hacking my own version of github.com/zachleat/perfo… today, I should have waited a little! 😍

  6. Todd Parker

    @toddmparker

    This is sweet!

  7. Andy Bell

    @hankchizljaw

    This is ridiculously good zach

  8. Nicolas Hoizey

    @nhoizey

    This new tool looks amazing, I'm trying it right now! 👍

  9. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    Thanks Todd!

  10. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    Awesome, thanks Andy!

  11. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    one handy trick I use is to delete all the javascript

  12. ross

    @RDallaire

    Trying to get auto-deploys with netlify had 1 issue with the `npm run zip-results` in build-production

  13. OX Web Development

    @oxwebdev

    Would love to see this for Wordpress

  14. Bayu Angora

    @BayuAngora

    I wonder that Next is faster than Hugo.

  15. am I jacky? or am I jacky's dog? lol 📟🇭🇹✊🏾

    @jackyalcine

    Ah, I have a fix for this (it requires pre-stitching an image with a cap) but I'm like three months out on it >_<

  16. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    oh nice, I like that idea although the responsive behavior might feel a bit weird if the facepiles don’t reflow?

  17. am I jacky? or am I jacky's dog? lol 📟🇭🇹✊🏾

    @jackyalcine

    It depends! I only have this in my notes but I was going to wrap it in a custom element that took up a max width and did the math before hand (I also was going to run something that did the sizing of images beforehand)

  18. Aaron Parecki

    @aaronpk

    lol I have this problem too! At least you collapse your “likes” and “reposts” sections by default! I’m thinking about adding a “show more comments” button that you have to click in order to show more than the last 20 or so comments.

  19. Matthias Ott

    @m_ott

    Haha, same here! Especially for the personal website article, page size grew dramatically. Used to download the avatars manually (😇) and run them through a Photoshop action and ImageOptim… 😂

  20. Nicolas Hoizey

    @nhoizey

    ALSo, THErE’S SomethinG stRANGe oN mY mObiLe sAfArI… 😅

  21. Nicolas Hoizey

    @nhoizey

    Indeed! 👍 github.com/zachleat/zachl…

  22. Søren Birkemeyer 🦊

    @polarbirke

    Woohoo 🙌

  23. bertrandkeller

    @bertrandkeller

    Is it inspired by lowtus.fr ? @lowtusdev

  24. Zach Leatherman

    @zachleat

    I don’t think so but that does look very comprehensive! Nice work!

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