Improved site speed and search accuracy
by Abi Tyas Tunggal
Speed improvements and more weighting to newer jobs
We've made significant progress this week optimizing the speed of the platform. Loading the homepage, searching for remote jobs, viewing individual jobs, and using our company profiles and tech stacks should be significantly faster. The speed improvements are really noticeable if you land on one of our skill- or job category-based pages, like pages on remote design jobs, remote developer jobs, or remote sales jobs.
A bunch of work went into this including improving our caching, lazy loading images, optimizing our search algorithm and image sizes, minimizing JavaScript requests, purging unnecessary CSS, and moving some tasks from synchronous to asynchronous.
We've also improved our search algorithm to place more weight on recently posted jobs, making it easier for you to be one of the first applicants.
If you have any feedback, please let us know.
New remote work articles
We've published a number of articles in the last week:
- How to Engage Remote Employees: 15 Strategies to Keep Employees Engaged
- Ultimate List of Remote Work Statistics 2021
- Asynchronous Communication: Definition, Examples & Benefits
- 73 Companies With 4 Day Work Weeks
- Remote Collaboration: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Other fixes and improvements
- Fixed flicker on chevron on nav hover
- Increased the clickable area in type to search results
- Removed sticky sidebar on search pages
- Fixed issue causing some employment types to be unselected when you pressed back in your browser
- Fixed UI bug causing filter buttons to overflow outside the container
