Performance APIs — Complete Guide
Performance APIs — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of HTML Tutorial on Toolliyo Academy.
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HTML Tutorial · Lesson 59 of 100
Performance APIs
Basics ✓ → Forms & semantics ✓ → APIs & performance → Projects
APIs & performance · 3 — HTML5, CSS/JS, security · ~10 min · HTML — HTML5 APIs & Advanced Features
What is this?
Performance APIs measure navigation timing, resources, and user-centric metrics in the browser.
Why should you care?
MarkupVerse teams track LCP and long tasks before shipping banking pages.
See it live — copy this example
Save as demo.html and open in your browser, or use Run Example below.
<footer id="perf-footer">
<small>DOM ready: <span id="dcl">—</span> ms · Load: <span id="load">—</span> ms</small>
</footer>
<script>
window.addEventListener('load', () => {
const nav = performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0];
document.getElementById('dcl').textContent = Math.round(nav.domContentLoadedEventEnd);
document.getElementById('load').textContent = Math.round(nav.loadEventEnd);
});
</script>
Run Example »
Edit the code below and click Run to see the result in Toolliyo’s live editor.
What happened?
- Use PerformanceObserver for LCP/CLS in real apps.
- Navigation Timing summarizes page load phases.
Practice next
- Read navigation entry on load.
- Display two timings.
- Compare cold vs cached reload.
- Add PerformanceObserver for LCP.
- Mark custom events with performance.mark.
Remember
Measure before optimize. Navigation Timing baseline. Observer for vitals.
MarkupVerse load probe
Dev footer shows DCL vs load on staging.
Outcome: Team spots a slow script blocking load.
Interview prep for this lesson
Practice these questions aloud after reading—each links to a full structured answer.
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