Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)

Summary

I once spent an hour creating an F1 lights-out reaction test which went viral and was even played by F1 drivers. That sounds like a brag, and it kinda is, but now whenever I pour days or even weeks of work into something, it just seems so inefficient compared to that time I spent an hour on something that went big. Wait! You're not my therapist! Let's look at another F1 website… This is part 3 in a multi-part series looking at the loading performance of F1 websites. Not interested in F1? It shouldn't matter. This is just a performance review of 10 recently-built/updated sites that have broadly the same goal, but are built by different teams, and have different performance issues. Part 1: Methodology & Alpha Tauri Part 2: Alfa Romeo➡️ Part 3: Red Bull Part 4: Williams Part 5: Aston Martin Part 6: Ferrari Part 7: Haas Part 8: McLaren Bonus: Google I/O…more coming soon… Link First run Second run Total 8.6s 2019 total Now we're talking! This is a graphically rich, engaging site, and the performance is pretty good! In fact, it's significantly faster than its 2019 site. But there's still room for improvement. 3 second delay to content-render caused by unnecessary inlining. Covered in detail below. 10 second delay to main image caused by a JavaScript responsive images implementation, like we saw in part 2. These should be real responsive images. Additional 2 second delay to main image caused by an extra connection. This problem is covered in part 1, but the solution here is just to move the images to the same server as the page. Additional 2 second delay to main image caused by poor optimisation. Covered in detail below. 40 second delay to key image caused by loading it with JavaScript. Covered in detail below. Additional 30 second delay to that image caused by poor optimisation. Covered in detail below. 2 second delay to fonts caused by extra connection. Again, this is covered in part 1, but the solution here is just to move the fonts to the same server. 40+ second delay ...