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The Three Cs: 🤝 Concatenate, 🗜️ Compress, 🗳️ Cache

We know we should do it, but do we know how?

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The Ultimate Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique

Can Low-Quality Image Placeholders and LCP play nicely together?

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

There’s still a lot of misunderstanding about CWV for SEO. Let’s work it out together.

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

How helpful is Critical CSS?

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ct.css — Performance Hints via Injected Stylesheet Alone

Your is the single biggest render-blocking part of your page—ensuring it is well-formed is critical.

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Site-Speed Topography

Learning the lay of the land.

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The Fastest Google Fonts

For the most part, web fonts nowadays are faster than ever.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets.

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Performance Budgets, Pragmatically

One of the key tools that performance engineers have at their disposal is the Performance Budget.

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Making Cloud.typography Fast(er)

It all started, as these things often do, with a waterfall.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all.

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The Three Types of Performance Testing

A lot of companies are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle.

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Image Inconsistencies

How and when browsers download images.

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Code Smells in CSS Revisited

An update to my 2012 article, Code Smells in CSS

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Mixins Better for Performance

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BEMIT: Taking the BEM Naming Convention a Step Further

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Contextual Styling

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More Transparent UI Code with Namespaces

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The Specificity Graph

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Advice to budding front-end developers