Performance
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.
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Performance
Lazy loading everything is a mistake
A lazy attribute on the hero image delays the one thing the metric is measuring.
Performance
Compression: brotli, gzip and the flags nobody sets
Brotli at its default level is barely better than gzip. At level 11 for static files it is a different story.
Performance
Measuring on the hardware your readers own
A three-year-old phone on a shelf in the office does more for a team than any dashboard.
Performance
A week of field data beats a month of arguing
Lab numbers start arguments. Field numbers end them, because nobody can claim the lab was configured wrong.
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Our Lighthouse score dropped and nothing changed
It is almost always one of four things, and only one of them is your fault.
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Should we adopt a component library?
Ask what it costs to leave, not what it costs to adopt. The adoption number is the small one.
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How do I convince my team performance matters?
Stop arguing that it matters in general. Show what it costs here, on this page, this quarter.