Took the new version of the Cumulative Layout Shift metric (that is technically not cumulative anymore) for a few test runs to better understand it and the impact it can have on CLS scores: https://t.co/NSBfm1aQ4X
📝 Profiling the Williams F1 site. Looking at:
➡️ The cost of redirects
➡️ Oh hello HTTP/1.1 my old friend
➡️ Image layout stability
➡️ And a late-loading mystery…
https://t.co/Jw04AjG6Ph
💡 Perceived #performance is a measure of how fast a user thinks your website is, not necessarily how fast your technical stats say it is.
Here are some techniques you can use to make your websites feel faster and enhance user experience. ⤵️
https://t.co/hFlK8t9Kvp
WordPress should have one singular button that says: Turn off all comments and comment displays. This is so hilariously complicated, it's absurd.
All our settings pages are a nightmare. Needs full audit and re-think.
@optimatters I reckon most users would be ok with a chatbot or popup that doesn't appear immediately. And the sudden appearance of it upon interaction with the page wouldn't be any less jarring than it appearing straight away.
Saying that, I do understand your point on accessibility.
@optimatters I suppose it depends on the meaning of impact. I agree that the user's browser will still have to complete those tasks but delaying things like chatbots, popups and similar scripts can improve core web vitals without any noticable impact on the user experience?
@fox I ❤️ speeding up sites because I know how frustrating slow loading pages are.
My less selfish reason is to make websites/apps more accessible to those on slower networks & using lower spec phones etc.
For companies, the big drivers I'm hearing are #SEO and conversion rates.