As part of my performance improvement quest I have been looking into link prefetching. Gatsby uses prefetching to improve the apparent speed of loading subsequent pages. I would like to implement or find an implementation of this which I can use in WordPress. This article describes some prefetch plugin options for WordPress. I intend to […]
I previously posted about my work to better understand web performance optimization, particularly with WordPress. In doing so I have used a number of online testing resources alongside my local implementation of Lighthouse and chrome developer tools. Here are online performance testing sites I have used: Web.dev Google PageSpeed Insights GT Metrix Webpagetest.org Web.dev and
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Something I need to read more thoroughly and understand is the use of typography. This is a design topic but I see the need to be design aware and at times I do it myself. This article is a good starting point regarding the art of web typography.
Just finished reading this very long article about the recent changes in Sass and the new module system. Now I am ready to @use, @forward, and as needed migrate in my projects. See also: Sass website. Sass specification for the module system on GitHub. Sass blog.
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I created a test page in this theme where I had a header with a video background set to loop using the video tag “loop” attribute. I found to my frustration that this does not work correctly in Chrome and Edge with the video stopping instead of looping. Note that it does work in Safari
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As my current focus is on speeding up WordPress sites I have been reviewing certain plugins including Asset Clean-Up. The plugin author, Gabriel Livan, has a nice blog which lead me to an article of his on Toptal that has some pretty useful information regarding coding best practices. Most I have seen before, but this
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This is a placeholder for information regarding PWA’s – Progressive Web Apps – and my experience with a small app I created using Gatsby.
This is a placeholder for information regarding optimizing WordPress performance.
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These are some articles I saved for reference to read in more detail: Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack How Smashing Magazine Manages Content: Migration From WordPress To JAMstack
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