Web performance is vital, but lately I’ve felt that the topic has only been brought up by front-end developers, and only becomes a point of discussion at the end of a project. Subsequently, whenever I hear about solutions to …
We’ve all been there before: You’re browsing a website that has a ton of huge images of delicious food, or maybe that new gadget you’ve been eyeballing. These images tug at your senses, and for content authors, they’re essential in …
At De Voorhoede we try to boost front-end performance as much as possible for our clients. It is not so easy to convince every client to follow all of our performance guidelines. We try to convince them by talking to …
I recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. They called me in because the majority of the images on …
There’s lots of neat tricks for reducing the size of JPGs in this article by Colt McAnlis:
…With the Average webpage size now larger than the original DOOM game, you have to start asking where all the bytes are coming
Clever testing strategy from the team at Financial Times: they used blocking CSS in order to test people’s behaviour when they’re faced with a slow loading web page:
…We wanted to understand how much the speed of our website affected
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 …
Rebecca Murphey’s talk from dotJS 2015 explores all the various gotchas surrounding HTTP/2. For instance, how will servers support it? How does our front-end process change to benefit the most from this new protocol? How will developers know that everything …
I just recently took CSS-Tricks “HTTPS everywhere”. That is, every URL on this site enforces the HTTPS (SSL) protocol. Non-secure HTTP requests get redirected to HTTPS. Here are some notes on that journey.…
