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Improving performance of single page application or front end web application

Now a days, most of the people are using single page application. Before I mention performance testing of single page application, I should mention what is single page application and why it is getting popular. Single Page Application (known as SPA) - As it is clear from the name, single page application contains primarily one main html page and rest of the pages are different views in addition to the main html page. User will not see any change in the url once main page is loaded. They can click on different features and only some portion of the main page will be reloaded thus providing good user experience. Why single page application is getting popular - There are many reasons but some of the main reasons are - Entire page is loaded only once at client end and will be served from client side thus performance will be fast HTML/CSS/JS can be cached on first load and network call(except fetching dynamic data) will not be required to load static assets. User will not observe p