If you’re anything like us, you’ve been cooped up at home for longer than you’d prefer, and have been staring at a computer screen for a good portion of that time. Need a good distraction? Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. First off, we truly …
Chrome’s DevTools suite contains some of the most powerful tools available to help you analyze and improve the speed of your website (or web app). They can also be the most overwhelming. In our most recent article, we covered one area of the DevTools that we can use to measure the load time of our …
If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. We’ve covered PageSpeed Insights in-depth, but …
For many of us, typography is as big of a decision as anything else in the design process of a website. Choosing the perfect font family, making sure we’re using the right font weight. We want our font to be an extension of the design, as well as make our content pleasing to the eye, …
Tell me if you’ve experienced this before. You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. You may even have a client who’s wondering why they’re getting inconsistent results on tests …
Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. We’re no exception. Make no mistake, this is a key step to take and should absolutely be a part of your web design/development routine. However, what do you do when you …