Posts in the category “Website Optimization”

My default browser (Vivaldi, by the way) is configured to search my bookmarks when I type into the address bar. Today I mis-typed youtube.com and it suggested a blog post from 2008 about image optimization originally published on the now defunct YUI Blog. Curious to see just how much of the advice would still apply today, I loaded the bookmark⁠⁠⁠⁠…

Chrome’s Network tab alerted that a client’s website was downloading Roboto from Google Fonts. The problem was that we weren’t using Roboto for this project. After some troubleshooting we discovered Roboto was being downloaded on pages displaying an embedded Google Map. Why, Google?

Thankfully, Stack Overflow has a pretty simple solution.

A friendly reminder to please resize your images before including them on your website. Needlessly large images will slow down your website irking visitors and upsetting your Google web search ranking.

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