Barry Pollard
Have Core Web Vitals made the web faster?
Barry dives into data from HTTP Archive to show how Google's push for web performance with Core Web Vitals helped — or not 😅 — improve the performance of the Web.
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Why designers should move from px to rem - and how to do that in Figma
If you're a Web developer (as most of my readers), you already know that users DO change font size (in their browser preferences), so you make sure to use proportional dimension units (em, rem, %, etc.) instead of px everywhere you can.
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Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?
Using SVG with performance in mind is not an easy topic because there are many ways to show SVG images in pages.
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The Art of Deception, Lighthouse Score Edition
I agree with Zach that the Lighthouse scores we see - shared mostly on Twitter - should be taken with a grain of salt, as they are often shared without any mention of the test conditions.
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Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid
This is a great use case for CSS Grid's dense packing algorithm!
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An Inclusive Web is Fast by Default
This is a great talk!
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The business models that support much of the content on the web don’t favor better performance. Nor does the culture of many organizations who end up prioritizing the next feature over improving things like performance or accessibility or security.
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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management
Users need to be able to find the website. They need to be able to use and perceive it correctly, they need the website to function correctly, they need high-quality content, and they also need to have a good experience after their visit.
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Does shadow DOM improve style performance?
This article is about style performance improvement with Shadow DOM, but it also contains a useful comparison of selector performance between ids, classes and data attributes:
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Mastodon & Fediverse for Beginners
Here's a good introduction to the Fediverse from Paula, with details about Mastodon and Pixelfed.
Christine Vallaure
Tyler Sticka
Zach Leatherman
Kev Bonett
Simon Hearne
Tim Kadlec
Elie Sloïm
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