Wesley Smits

Building web experiences for aesthetic businesses. Founder of Lavandré. Specialized in Vue, Nuxt, and modern frontend architecture.

How to minimize HTTP requests

What is an HTTP request? Most of the loading time of a website consists of downloading all the necessary components to show the website. Every HTML, CSS, Javascript and image file has to be requested from the server. This request made by the browser is called an HTTP request. Why you should min

3 min readFeb 28, 2014•Wesley Smits

How to enable GZIP Compression and Speed up your site

Gzip compression is a way of compression your resource files smaller. This can often save you between 50-70% of the file size and speed up your site.

2 min readFeb 21, 2014•Wesley Smits

How to set up a cookieless domain

One of the techniques for optimizing a website for speed is to serve static content such as CSS, Javascript and image files from a cookieless domain.

4 min readFeb 7, 2014•Wesley Smits

How to cache your static resources

Almost every website contains resources that don’t change very often. CSS, javascript and image files are excellent examples of this. These files are downloaded every single time a webpage is loaded. This could really increase the time it takes to load your webpages. Don’t you think that

3 min readJan 30, 2014•Wesley Smits