Most popular pagespeed LinkedIn posts of 2022
I've selected my most popular LinkedIn post of 2022. It might be convenient of you if you're not following me yet, or just didn't had the chance to read up on all of them.
Pagespeed findings
Can't get enough? I'm regularly sharing snack bite tips and advice on LinkedIn as well.
Pagespeed best practices guide for using custom or Google fonts
We all get that woff2 is smaller than woff, or ditching custom fonts comes with best performance. But what are considerations if you really want to use custom fonts?
Still using WebFontLoader to load (Google) Fonts? Don't!
If you're concerned about the loading experience of your custom fonts, you might have run into the WebFontLoader. A 10 year old library. Should you still use it today.
Plugins to improve your website or shop's pagespeed
In general, people know that I'm not the one to ask which plugins to use for their stack. However, given the fact that I'm a pagespeed and performance enthousiast, I'm sometimes asked which plugins people should be using.
3 similarities between pagespeed and accessibility
While two completely different things, there actually is a correlation between pagespeed and accessibility.
What the setup of my pagespeed cases look like
Even clients that are convinced they should work with me, still want to know how a collaboration and an auditing trajectory is going to look like. This article is giving background information.
Don't use Page Load Time to predict conversion
I've seen pagespeed audits where Google Analytics' Average Page Load Time was used to determine bad performing pages and claiming the webshop was missing revenue. However, pagespeed is more nuanced.
Unexpected? Not really: new layout for PageSpeed Insights
If you're looking for PageSpeed Insights, you now get redirected to their new testing environment: The PageSpeed Insights layout has changed as of today.
Properly setting up Cloudflare caching for faster TTFB
When doing pagespeed audits, there often is a common pitfall that I see happening across different webshops. If you're using Cloudflare, then this might help you out as well.
Lighthouse scores do not affect Google Search / SEO
So there's that, it has been said. Your Lighthouse score doesn't matter. Let's nuance this a bit.
Let's get critical: inline CSS a must have?
"Critical CSS is a must-have for a good pagespeed and core web vitals score". I saw this statement passing by recently, and although using critical CSS myself, such claim comes with nuance.
Hack your PageSpeed LCP metric by enlarging your hero image
So, you've got a hero image which is actually messing up your LCP metric in Lighthouse or PageSpeed Insights? You might not have heard this before, but making it even bigger will help.
Could and should I fake PageSpeed Insights?
You're on a quest to achieve green results as Core Web Vitals is coming closer. Can PageSpeed Insights be deceived to rank better?
Why Lighthouse says image elements lack width and height and how to fix
Wondering why Lighthouse is recommending you to fix this, although you don't see any layout shifts yourself, and why is it warning you only now and not before?
Web performance company without passing Core Web Vitals
If you reached this blog, then chances are you've heard of Cloudflare. CDN solution might be the first that comes to mind, but their focus is even broader. However, it stops at Core Web Vitals.
How Brian Dean's Backlinko acted on Core Web Vitals
I wrote about the Backlinko results in November 2019 on LinkedIn, tagging Brian as well. But it looks like Brian already put some effort into the pagespeed of his website. As a result, he is now passing Core Web Vitals.
Core Web Vitals visual indicator and Google news top stories
Mid november, Google announced when and how Core Web Vitals will be part of organic ranking. In May, where pages will have a visual indicator of meeting Core Web Vitals. The first tests of Google were already seen.
Core Web Vitals and highlighting live in May 2021
Things just got real! We already knew about Core Web Vitals. Google now published that your website will be highlighted within the Google search result pages.
GTmetrix pagespeed: outdated and going to use Core Web Vitals
Earlier I wrote why to use PageSpeed Insights instead of GTmetrix, but this might not be accurate anymore by the end of the month. GTmetrix announced they will be moving to using Core Web Vitals as well.
Webflow pagspeed and Core Web Vitals
Webflow was founded in 2012 and is an online visual editor platform allowing users to design, build and launch websites. Does this mean you can't get high PageSpeed scores? And what about the newest Core Web Vitals?
Best free website Performance + CrUX toolings in 2020
If you want to check the performance of your webshop or website, these are the best free toolings you can use.
Why you should use PageSpeed Insights, instead of GTmetrix or Pingdom
The answer to one of my most asked questions (spoiler alert: it's because of SEO and UX).
Why isn't HTTP/2 improving the pagespeed score
Sometimes a LinkedIn post of mine is leading to new questions as well. This time: "How do you get a high PageSpeed score when a site is using HTTP/2?"
Does 5G make my sitespeed issues go away?
Recently, when discussing pagespeed optimizations within a platform migration, I was asked if fiber internet or 5G will make sitespeed issues go away, or just making it worse.
How faster internet resulted in slower sites and webshops
During the years 2011 through 2019, 4g coverage spread from 5% to 79% of the world. During that same time period, the median average JavaScript transfer size to mobile devices increased by 611%, from 52kb to 372.9 KB.
6 free website pagespeed & performance improvements
While there are a lot of articles to be found on the subject of pagespeed or improving overall sitespeed, most will come out-of-the-box.
Fast, accessible and data-saving websites
Although most of my work is pagespeed-related, I also like to address web accessibility and carbon emission when doing R&D for our website-producing CMS.
CSS Critical Path in Magento 1
Last Thursday, January 16th, I joined TJ Gamble's livestream to answer some PageSpeed related questions. Critical CSS was one of the subjects. Just before the livestream, I published a code snippet to auto-enable CSS critical Path within Magento 1.
Chromium: badge of shame for slow loading websites?
Twitter exploded when Chromium announced it. Chromium is describing it as "Moving towards a faster web", which is a clear signal towards digital agencies and other websites builders. What to expect?
What Google didn't tell you at Magento Live
Have you been to Magento Live in Amsterdam and did you speak the Google PageSpeed crew about your pagespeed score? I already heard some e-commerce owners, the Google PageSpeed crew might have given you some wrong insights, which I am going to answer instead.
Light weight websites with Save-Data header
We all use JS, custom fonts, images and maybe even video's within our website or webshop. We can now reduce our load and speed up article- or product pages based on user preferences.
Belsimpel's productpage pagespeed
A better perceived performance and thus user experience, will result in higher conversion and thus revenue.
Improving a webshop productpage pagespeed
Before helping an e-commerce company with improving their pagespeed, sometimes I create a proof of concept first. By doing this, stakeholders will get a better grasp of what can be achieved in real life.