esting Website Speed And Quality

The speed, size, and efficiency of a website or application is one of the most important factors not just for users, but also on the back end. Large, fat, bloated codebases make it harder to work with — despite framework fanboys wild claims to the contrary — and also create excess server load.

Freelancing as an accessibility and efficiency consultant I’ve lost track of the number of websites the past decade and a half I’ve gone into where they were struggling to handle very low traffic. Choking out multi-processor expensive managed dedicated hosting plans for content and functionality that didn’t warrant more than a $10/mo VPS.

The horrifying part though being the endless stream of lame excuses of why said sites “had to be that way.” From claims that it’s “enterprise grade” (whatever the F*** that actually means. Seems to mean “it’s junk because we’re idiots); That they “need” to write ten times the code needed to be “better for collaboration”, or “bring new hires up to speed”; Alongside every other bit of bullshit to cover up for their own ineptitude. You can see many of the same dipshit excuses if you go back and read the comments on my older articles.

The killer is that it’s not hard to make a fast website. I’ve written about that previously:
https://medium.com/codex/so-you-want-to-make-your-website-faster-d2a00db39097