Eileen Fürstenau

Next.js Unleashed: Optimizing Web Vitals for superior User Experience

A simple wine shuffler app scored a dismal 52 on Lighthouse. See the step-by-step Next.js optimizations that skyrocketed its performance to a near-perfect 99.

Next.js Unleashed: Optimizing Web Vitals for superior User Experience
#1about 2 minutes

Building a wine app and discovering its poor performance

A sample wine recommendation app built with Next.js reveals a low initial Lighthouse performance score of 52, prompting an investigation into optimization.

#2about 4 minutes

Explaining the importance of Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals like LCP, CLS, and INP are defined as key metrics for measuring user experience, loading performance, and visual stability.

#3about 4 minutes

An overview of Next.js and its optimization capabilities

Next.js is introduced as a React framework with built-in features like server-side rendering and static site generation that aid performance.

#4about 3 minutes

Improving performance with the Next.js Image component

Replacing the standard HTML `<img>` tag with the Next.js `<Image>` component automatically handles resizing, modern formats like WebP, and lazy loading.

#5about 4 minutes

How to efficiently load custom fonts in Next.js

The built-in font optimization in Next.js eliminates extra network requests by inlining font CSS at build time, improving load performance.

#6about 4 minutes

Using dynamic imports for modules and components

Defer loading of non-critical JavaScript for third-party libraries and React components by using dynamic imports to reduce the initial bundle size.

#7about 2 minutes

Managing third-party scripts with the Script component

The Next.js `<Script>` component provides control over when third-party scripts are loaded and executed to prevent them from blocking page rendering.

#8about 2 minutes

Achieving a near-perfect score after optimizations

After applying several Next.js optimization techniques, the application's Lighthouse performance score improved from 52 to 99.

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