Unlocking Efficiency: The Power of Code Refactoring for Performance Optimization

Abandoning high website performance is no longer tenable in today’s world, where new technologies are emerging at an alarming rate. Code refactoring is one of the best ways of increasing efficiency in the development process of any software application. If your website is slow and stagnated, then the problem might be in poorly written and rather outdated or messy code. At Chaintech Network, one of our core services is code optimization - we apply changes to make your applications run faster and as efficiently as possible. 

What Is Code Refactoring?

Code refactoring is therefore defined as the act of restructuring existing code to improve its quality and, by extension, its functionality. This way, the code is sincerely cleaner, much less complex, and thereby more efficient. This makes the code easier to debug and modify and, in most cases, results in enhanced website performance. Refactoring makes it possible to get rid of bugs, minimize such things as technical debts that are often accumulated, and make further modifications more manageable.

Businesses can lose billions of dollars per year due to having slow websites, and most owners of such companies may not be aware of this. If you refactor code, what you are doing is making your website futureproofing or making it ready for the next level.  

Three key questions to consider when deciding on code refactoring for performance optimization: 

• Improves load time

  The complicated and messy code of the application can significantly decrease the loading time of your site. Refactoring improves the code quality, which means that the amount of time taken to load will be reduced since users are more likely to abandon applications that take time to open. On the contrary, research has it that if the site takes one second longer to load, it is likely to record 7% less conversion. 

• Enhances Scalability

  Refactoring helps make your code base more scalable because you’re adding order to it. This makes it possible to adapt; as your business evolves and you incorporate new functionality, your website does not slow down or produce many errors.

• Simplifies future maintenance

  This code can be read, understood, and modified easily if written in a refactored format. This makes it efficient to update, hence making future updates or general bug fixes cheaper. As it is revealed by a survey, up to 60 percent of the development time is invested in the maintenance of the old code. Such a task is time-consuming and requires effort, but code refactoring reduces that time and effort.  

Prevents/lowers the incidence of bugs and technical debts

This is mostly because the code that was first used in the creation of the software is outdated and comes with several bugs the common being, causing the software to crash. Refactoring aids in eradicating these issues due to the centrality of the structure and the removal of all messy and/or superfluous codes. Some of the benefits include: This cuts back on technical debt to a significant degree; your development team is not bogged down with having to develop, maintain, and update a large volume of repetitive utility code.

In this article, you will discover how Chaintech Network improves performance by following the code refactoring strategy.  

At Chaintech Network, we know about performance optimization and the role that code refactoring plays in achieving this goal. Here’s how we approach it:  

1. Code Audits

   The first step involves assessing your current code base to outline the problematic areas that require an overhaul. This means we can come up with a plan that meets your required needs.

2. Step-by-Step Refactoring

   This is a common position of our team: We do not redesign everything at the same time. We imply the step-by-step approach to refactoring; this allows your website or web application to stay fully functional as we gradually refactor the code to be incrementally better. This reduces meaningfully the time that the vehicles are off the road and the potential boosts in performance efficiency that could otherwise be implemented. 

3. Performance Monitoring

   After applying the refactoring process, you get the opportunity to observe your site as it becomes faster, more scalable, and easier to maintain. We also monitor important parameters such as time to load a page, time spent on site by the user, and conversion ratios to check the optimization's efficiency.  

4. Continuous Support

   After that, we work with the code optimization and then offer you constant support and the development of your application as your company expands.    

 Should Your Code Be Refactored?  

If you find that your website has stalled in terms of speed, then the best thing you might try is to look at some of the code that you’ve written and perhaps refactor it in such a way that it would make the current websites run faster for your users. Chaintech Network is your secret weapon for performance tuning by professional code review. Your web applications are much faster, more stable, and easier to maintain now.