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Why your LCP element is not what you think

Teams optimise the hero image for a fortnight and discover the LCP element was a paragraph of text the whole time.

chrisMarch 4, 20261 min read

A lazy attribute on the hero image delays the one thing the metric is measuring.

chrisFebruary 20, 20261 min read

Brotli at its default level is barely better than gzip. At level 11 for static files it is a different story.

chrisFebruary 8, 20261 min read

A three-year-old phone on a shelf in the office does more for a team than any dashboard.

chrisJanuary 27, 20261 min read

Lab numbers start arguments. Field numbers end them, because nobody can claim the lab was configured wrong.

chrisJanuary 15, 20261 min read

It is almost always one of four things, and only one of them is your fault.

chrisJanuary 3, 20261 min read

Ask what it costs to leave, not what it costs to adopt. The adoption number is the small one.

chrisDecember 22, 20251 min read

Stop arguing that it matters in general. Show what it costs here, on this page, this quarter.

chrisDecember 10, 20251 min read