Too Old To Rocket Load, Too Young To Die
Rocket Loader, a web performance product by Cloudflare, has been re-engineered for contemporary browsers and Web standards. Originally launched in 2011, Rocket Loader improves page load times by minimizing network requests through the bundling of JavaScript files, including third-party, speeding up page rendering, asynchronously loading the bundles, avoiding HTML parsing blockage, and caching scripts locally using LocalStorage. The new version of Rocket Loader has been rebuilt from the ground up to incorporate lessons learned and improve customer page performance. It now executes blocking scripts after all other page assets have loaded while maintaining their intended position in relevant DOM collections.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
July 4, 2018
Author(s)
Peter Belesis, Ivan Nikulin
Word count
2914
Hacker News points
None found.
Language
English