Note from 11 January 2022


  1. How do you deal with images that need to have a fluid width but fixed height?

    I tend to start from the lowest width/height ratio and increase, knowing larger images will have hidden parts above and below… 😔

    Anything better?

  2. I accidentally moved my hero image onto Cloudinary (who I also adore!). But, a less-optimised image served from the same origin is always faster than a more-optimised image from a third party. Self-host your static assets! csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets/

    True!

    But most images are currently not or badly optimized. 😔

    They would benefit a lot from an image CDN: resize, compression, modern formats, etc.