OPTIMIZATION OF CROSS-BROWSER EFFICIENCY OF HIGHLY VISITED WEB APPLICATIONS

Prisyazhnyy Alexander Olegovich

The constantly evolving landscape of web technologies and the need to support older browsers for accessibility to all possible users poses serious challenges for the engineering community to provide universal support in various browsers. Given that not all modern Internet users access the Internet from the latest browsers, applications may have problems with cross-browser compatibility. Experimental data suggest that the ES6 specification of the JavaScript language, published in 2015, on average offers better execution speed in modern browsers compared to its predecessors, but not all browsers used natively support it. This article examines different ways to achieve a compromise between optimal site performance and cross-browser support. The value of the presented work lies in the fact that the author offers a unique practical guide on configuring the transpilation of a web application to achieve maximum cross-browser compatibility and support for outdated browsers.

Keywords:optimization of web applications; transpilation; cross-browser compatibility; support for outdated browsers