It’s no secret that people are fascinated by speed–fastest car, fastest runner, fastest computer processor, even fastest website. In today’s tech industry, optimizing your website via responsive web design is a must to achieve top speed and performance. This is especially true as a fifth of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile devices. Because of this, websites need the ability to quickly adapt to a variety of devices.
Companies that chose not to go responsive face great adaptation costs and, ultimately, performance suffers. This can be attributed to three things: loading performance, rendering performance and programming performance (read more about web performance here). In this article I want to focus on how to avoid the most popular mistakes people make, but first, I want to introduce you to a few unwritten rules, which define when an application can be called “fast“