I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster | Trys Mudford
Picture me holding Trys back and telling him, “Leave it alone, mate, it’s not worth it!”
Inlining or Caching? Both Please! | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
This just blew my mind! A fiendishly clever pattern that allows you to inline resources (like critical CSS) and cache that same content for later retrieval by a service worker.
Crazy clever!
Related links
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The bar to overriding browser defaults should be way higher than it is.
Amen!
Standing still - a performance tinker | Trys Mudford
What Trys describes here mirrors my experience too—it really is worth occasionally taking a little time to catch the low-hanging fruit of your site’s web performance (and accessibility):
I’ve shaved nearly half a megabyte off the page size and improved the accessibility along the way. Not bad for an evening of tinkering.
JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.me
This really is a disgusting exlusionary state of affairs.
I hate to be judgy, but I honestly wonder how the people behind some of these decisions can call themselves web developers.
The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023 - YouTube
A great talk from Addy on just how damaging client-side JavaScript can be to the user experience …and what you can do about it.
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With this bookmarklet you’re only ever one click away from the Lighthouse results for a page.
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