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Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Jan 4, 2017

How I dropped 1s from the First Paint with a smarter font loading strategy

I’ve been learning a lot about measuring performance recently, and I’ve also shared part of this journey on Twitter and Facebook. One thing that I am learning to do more and more, as I wrote about a…

Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Feb 19, 2017

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 10: Is the DOM really slow? Can we work around it?

Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Jan 3, 2017

Measuring performance: page load

As I tweeted recently, when approaching performance, you need to start with profiling. The first thing you want to do is identifying the problem: finding what’s wrong is always the first step of making it right. That’s why measuring is so important when it comes to page…

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Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Dec 10, 2016

60fps animations on the Web

I want you to listen to me. You cannot animate whichever CSS property you’d wish to transition carelessly. You just can’t. Get over it. In fact, let’s make a vow:

I will not transition width, height, margins, or any other CSS property for that matter…

Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Mar 15, 2017

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 31: What if I wanted to load JS without executing it?

Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Mar 19, 2017

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 34: Can Preact be the lightweight solution to client-side hydration we’ve always needed?

Alessandro Menduni in West Wing Solutions

Nov 29, 2016

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 08: Should you really compress all your initially rendered content into 14KB of data?

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How I dropped 1s from the First Paint with a smarter font loading strategy

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 10: Is the DOM really slow? Can we work around it?

Measuring performance: page load

60fps animations on the Web

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 31: What if I wanted to load JS without executing it?

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 34: Can Preact be the lightweight solution to client-side hydration we’ve always needed?

The performance of images: a Custom Element

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 37: Why are GIFs a problem for performance?

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 39: Is a 1 MB header image too big?

#ASKTHEINDUSTRY 08: Should you really compress all your initially rendered content into 14KB of data?