Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
8 Hour(s) 36 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Clyde Matthew
Rating
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Course Overview
An advanced Critical Rendering Path (CRP) course for everyone! Learn the DOM, CSSOM, render blocking resources, etc.
*** THE BEST CRP COURSE ON UDEMY ***
Boost Performance: A 1-second delay in page load time can lead to 30% fewer page views, lower customer satisfaction, and decreased conversions.
Master Rendering: Learn how browsers transform HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into engaging websites.
Hands-On Learning: Engage with practical examples and performance analysis techniques.
Comprehensive Coverage: From DOM and CSSOM construction to render trees and pixel painting, grasp the entire rendering process.
Increase Profits: A few extra seconds can significantly impact viewer attention, interest, conversions, and ultimately your bottom line.
Beyond improving Google rankings, even a few extra seconds can significantly boost viewer attention, engagement, conversions, and ultimately, profitability.
Understanding the Critical Rendering Path (CRP) will empower you to become an exceptional programmer.
Through practical examples and performance analysis techniques, this course equips you with the skills to create high-performance, interactive web applications that deliver content swiftly and seamlessly. Join us to unlock the secrets of web rendering and elevate your web development capabilities!
Let me share my CRP knowledge secrets with you
Understanding the Critical Rendering Path will enable you to become an awesome programmer. Take control through understanding. Delivering a fast web experience requires a lot of work by the browser. Most of this work is hidden from web developers: we write the markup, and a nice looking page comes out on the screen. But how exactly does the browser go from consuming our HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to rendered pixels on the screen? By understanding this, you will be able to write better code in order to boost your website traffic, know how to precision fix and tweak behaviour and performance, improve your market penetration and your margins. You’ll also gain an advantages over other developers who seem to just push the buttons without fully appreciating what is happening.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE
You’ll learn about the Critical Rendering Path. This refers to the set of steps browsers must take to fetch and then convert HTML, CSS and JavaScript into living, breathing websites. From there, you’ll start exploring and experimenting with tools to measure performance. You’ll learn simple, yet very powerful strategies to deliver the first pixels to the screen as early as possible.
Knowledge of the CRP is incredibly useful for understanding how a site's performance can be improved. There are various stages to the CRP, such as constructing the DOM, constructing the CSSOM, running JavaScript, creating the Render Tree, generating the Layout and finally Painting pixels to the screen. As you can see, this covers a whole bunch of interesting material.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to “speak” CRP by gaining an understanding of how to fetch data from a server and then get that data to your user as quickly as possible. We dig deeper in every lecture, learning about things like HTTP, TCP, data packets, render blocking resources, and a whole bunch more! This course has many bonus lectures which extend your knowledge base and test your skills.
Through practical examples, this course helps you understand the CRP piece by piece. And we use the latest and best features of JavaScript and browsers (like the new Fetch API) along the way so you can stay ahead of the pack.
*** A comprehensive Web Development course on Udemy ***
Successful programmers know more than rote learning a few lines of code. They also know the fundamentals of how web development works behind the scenes. If you’re wanting to become a full stack developer, you need to know how to deal with server requests and responses, loading, scripting, rendering, layout, and the painting process of the pixels to the screen.
I want you to become a successful programming Grandmaster.
I want you to be able to apply what your learn in this course to your webpage.
This course is perfect for you.
A unique view
Understanding web development is a vast topic. To get you up to speed, I’ve spent many months thinking about where to focus content and how to deliver it to you in the best possible way.
You will learn "why" things work and not just "how". Understanding the fundamentals of web development is important as it will allow you to write better code. And trust me, every website encounters bugs and slow rendering times, and without understanding the fundamentals you will be totally lost.
How is this course different?
There are lots of great courses on web development. Pity they never get into the detail about how we get our website to your users screen as quickly as possible – which covers full stack development.
In this course, I focus on true web performance. This includes server requests and responses, loading, scripting, rendering, layout, and the painting of the pixels to the screen.
Practice makes perfect
Theory is theory … but there’s nothing like getting behind your computer and typing in code. That’s why we will be coding, laughing and pulling out our hair together as we code real life websites and exercises during this course.
I love practical examples, which is why we build simple pages and analyze the CRP together by using the Network Panel, Performance Panel and Audit Lighthouse within DevTools.
Is This Course for You?
Absolutely! This course is suitable for all levels of web developers. If you identify with any of these categories, it’s perfect for you:
Beginner Programmers: Learn HTTP fundamentals that apply across languages.
Web Performance Enthusiasts: Gain a solid understanding of how to optimize site speed.
Aspiring Backend Developers: Understand AJAX requests.
Curious Learners: Discover how the Critical Rendering Path works behind the scenes.
Frustrated Students: If previous courses left you confused about web development concepts.
Meet Your Instructor: Clyde
Clyde is a coding enthusiast who has been immersed in the world of computers since the age of 7.
With years of experience in web development and a passion for teaching, Clyde brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insights to the course. His engaging teaching style and real-world examples will make complex concepts accessible and enjoyable.
Enrol now
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your web development skills and unlock the potential of real-time communication with WebSockets.
Right this second, your competitors are learning how to become better web developers.
Web development is a blazing hot topic at the moment. But you have a distinct advantage. This course offers memorable learning topics, actionable tactics and real-world examples.
Get ready to transform your projects into interactive experiences that captivate users and make you money!
Let's get crackin'
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 144 lecture(s)
- Section 1 CRP Introduction
- Section 2 HTTP Protocol, TCP and Packets
- Section 3 Building a Custom Polyfill (warning: advanced)
- Section 4 Critical Rendering Path - DOM, CSSOM, Render Tree
- Section 5 Render Blocking Resources
- Section 6 Practice Test
- Section 7 Having Fun: Lets Analyze the Critical Rendering Path Together
- Section 8 FYI: What is HTTP/2
- Section 9 Closing Comments
What You’ll Learn
- Become and expert in the Critical Rendering Path (CRP)
- Learn advanced concepts like speculative parsing, async, preload, defer etc
- Understand the DOM, CSSOM, Render Tree, Layout & Paint process
- Learn how the CRP influences site speed and efficiency
- Speed up your websites and app & increase conversion TODAY
- Learn where to write your JavaScript code for optimized performance
- Real examples of how AJAX works (we use both the XMLHttpRequest object and the newer Fetch API)
- Understand render blocking resources and how to avoid them
- Grasp concepts such as the DOM, CSSOM, Render Tree
- Grasp Audit Lighthouse and how to use it
- Optimize any website for speed by writing better code
- Learn about the role of HTTP and AJAX in the context of CRP
- Understand the Network Panel, Performance Panel and Audit Lighthouse functions within DevTools
- Understand the fundamentals of HTTP, TCP, Data Packets and a whole bunch more!
- Understand what are Render Blocking Resources and how we solve this problem
- Skills that will help you to apply for jobs like Web Developer, Front End Developer, Javascript Developer, and Full Stack Developer
- From beginner to expert (advanced +)
- Ongoing updates to keep you current
- You will emerge an expert
- Write JavaScript and understand what a Polyfill does
- Write your own Polyfill
- How to use a text editor that is completely free
- Gives you depth of knowledge to boost your ability and confidence
- All the techniques used by professional programmers
- Introduction to HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 and how it improves the current HTTP/1.1 protocol
- Support from me
- Bonus lectures + practical examples
Reviews
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SSiarhei Karpovich
Great course! The material is presented very well, although in my opinion, some topics are repeated too often since they were already covered in previous lectures.
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PPeter G
The course adds an essential component to your Web Development toolkit, particularly in using Chrome’s DevTools for the purpose of analysis of the Critical Rendering Path. Whist I found that DevTools had moved on many revisions since the lessons were created, you will find differences. However, DevTool’s Network and Performance tabs are still pretty much the same and you will soon become confident with using the current version (I was using version 138). Clyde is very thorough and leaves nothing to chance. Clyde has an innate knack of knowing what the next question in your mind is – then immediately proceeds to answer/explain it. I have the feeling that Clyde has been there, struggled with it, sorted it, then openly shared the knowledge gained with you. I learnt a great deal from the course and gained greater confidence in the use of Chrome’s DevTools and how to look for issues with web page loads.
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AAnmol Sagar Shrestha
Just completed the section about Ajax(Making requests and receving a response). He's a pretty good instructor. Touches on many details. Loving the course so far!!!
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JJürgen Bauer
The course provides excellent instruction on how to measure and optimize a website's performance. Knowledge you won't get from a standard HTML or JavaScript course. Highly recommended!
