From the course: Advanced SEO: Developing an SEO-Friendly Website

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Critical rendering path

Critical rendering path

From the course: Advanced SEO: Developing an SEO-Friendly Website

Start my 1-month free trial

Critical rendering path

“

- [Instructor] To further our discussion on speed and its impact on SEO, we need to take a look at the critical rendering path. This path is what happens in the steps between receiving the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and rendering the page in your browser. When we optimized the critical rendering path and allow our content to load progressively we can significantly improve the time to get our above the fold content loaded. Optimizing the critical path makes the site load faster but it also tricks the user into thinking the site is loading faster than it is. Users like to know things are happening and as elements pop into place on the page we reassure the user the site is working, the content is coming, and they can even begin to interact with the material before the page finishes rendering. The critical rendering path serves as a foundation for building well-performing websites. And to understand the critical rendering path, let's walk through what is going on at the browser level to…

Contents