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Quick Hit #61
Bramus shares that Chrome Canary no longer forces CSS animations using width and height properties to run on the main thread.…
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
Quick Hit #30
“Waits are a price that developers ask users to pay and loading spinners only buy so much time.” —Alex Russell (permalink)…
Quick Hit #18
PSA: Today’s the day that Google’s performance tools officially stops supporting the First Input Delay (FID) metric that was replaced by Interaction to Next Paint (INP).…
The truth about CSS selector performance
Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed, or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving …
Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App
In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, …
7 Fresh Links on Performance For March 2022
I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share.…
Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet to See (and Disable) CSS Files
Stoyan is absolutely correct. As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. He has a neat new bookmarklet called CSS Me Not …