Rail: Putting the user first # Paul Irish and Paul Lewis wrote an article for Smashing Magazine outlining a new way to look at performance by analyzing how users perceive the speed of your site. Paul...
Performance budgeting allows developers to user performance as another part of our design and builld process. There is no reason why a site should weigh in at over 2 mega bytes or take more than 10...
Unless we are careful when creating them or manipulating them with Photoshop or its equivalent images can become huge very quickly. If we're not careful when saving the images we will find ourselves...
Tasks that minimize HTML are available for Grunt and Gulp and both are based on the HTML minifier tool. Option Description Default removeComments Strip HTML...
Optimizing Javascript is nothing more than eeliminating as much white space as we possibly can and, if we want to, to mangle the names of variables down to as few letters as possible. The idea is that...
Optimizing the critical rendering path is critical for improving performance of our pages: our goal is to prioritize and display the content that relates to the primary action the user wants to take...
CSS vendor prefixes are both a blessing and a curse. They are a blessing because, as originally designed, they allow browser vendors to implement new CSS features that were not part of any final...
Unless you already work with a customizer or are familiar with SASS to know what imports to comment out in order to remove a feature from your CSS framework you are bound to have unused features...
CSS can become very large and very convoluted if we're not careful. This is particularly important when using third party libraries like Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation where most users download the full...
The tools for making content performant have improved considerably in the last few years. As designers we can now influence the size and the type of resources that the end users will see when they...