Category Archives: best practices

Early Hints vs. Resource Hints vs. Speculation Rules: Which is right for what, and when?

It’s no secret: the faster things arrive in the browser, the faster the browser can show them to your users. But there are lots of ways to get things into the browser faster. This article compares three similar, but quite different, techniques, explaining how they are similar, how they are different, when each should be used, and how together they create a powerful performance trio. Continue reading

Investigating… can CLS cause a high LCP?

Speedcurve’s Page Speed Benchmarks reported Costco.com’s LCP averaging at 6.85s. But could it be that CLS is at least part of the problem? Read to find out! Continue reading

Home page update

After YEARS of the same design and having only a blogroll as my home page, I decided to add a landing page in front. Things are likely to change, but would love to hear what you think so far! Continue reading

NoLoJS Repo Gets New Doc Pages

An upgrade to the NoLoJS repo, adding an auto-generated static documentation site, with loads of bells and whistles. Would love to hear your thoughts! Happy reducing! Continue reading

NoLoJS: Reducing the JS Workload with HTML and CSS

Introducing NoLoJS: an open-source design library of components that reduce reliance on JS, where possible, in favor of HTML and CSS. Continue reading

Hanging my web performance optimization shingle

If you or someone you know needs help with website performance optimizing, please feel free to reach out! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including #accessibility, #aria, #baseline, #compressiondictionairies, #css, #js, #performance, #speculationrules and more. Happy reading! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including #a11y, #ai, #css, #github, #js, #reactjs, #webperf, the #environment and more. Happy reading! Continue reading

Getting to Know… WPO (Web Performance Optimization)

The latest installment in my “Getting to Know…” series, where I “get to know” some tech and share resources, tips, tricks and notes that I collect along the way. This time around, let’s get to know… WPO (Web Performance Optimization)! A word of caution: This one is more of a BOOK than an POST… Continue reading

Adios, Estee!

As my time with Estee Lauder comes to a close, it is time to seek new opportunities. I hope to be able to continue with my passion of making the world wide web a faster, more stable place. Happy surfing! Continue reading