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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

April 8, 2020

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 …

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The DevTools Performance Tab – Using Chrome’s Profiler to Optimize Your Page Speed

March 22, 2020

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 …

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

March 2, 2020

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 …

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Web Font Performance – How Your Fonts Affect Page Speed

February 11, 2020

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, …

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Why speed test results are different than your load times

January 28, 2020

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 …

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Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

January 17, 2020

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 …

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