Articles by

David Attard

Perhaps you've heard of HTTP/2? It's not just an idea, it's a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing it to their servers. Much has been said about the benefits of using HTTP/2 instead of HTTP1.x, but the proof the the pudding is in the eating.

Today we're going to perform a few real-world tests, perform some timings and see what results we can extract out of all this.

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If you’ve been working around web development for a while, you’ll know that the web has a need for speed. The truth is simple: speed matters and faster is considered better.

One "easy win" for increasing performance is using a CDN. We’ve discussed this several times at CSS-Tricks. It's easy in that you aren't rewriting a codebase or hand-editing content, but it's an area of performance many of us might overlook because, well, hosting, servers and cPanels, oh my!

Thankfully, the process for integrating a CDN does not have to be hard. (more…)

The following is a guest post by David Attard. I only recently became aware that Google Tag Manager was a thing, but didn't know exactly what it was, what it did, or why I might care to use it. Thankfully David stepped up here to explain it, so now we all can understand it. Take it David!

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The following is a guest post by David Attard of DART Creations. David is going to introduce us to AMP (no idea what that is? read on) as well as how you might go about converting an existing site to an AMP site. Hint: it's for big performance gains. AMP is becoming quite a thing. WordPress is doing it. I've got Google telling me to do it and that Analytics supports it.

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