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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Establish a performance culture. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

This is a great feature of Google Fonts, by checking the user-agent they are able to serve the most performant formats to browsers that support those, while still displaying the fonts consistently on older browsers. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control. Design Optimizations.

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Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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