New post: Web performance tooling

I was curious what tools other performance engineers were using to measure site speed, so I ran an informal survey.

Here are the results... An Informal Survey of Web Performance Tooling in 2021
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New virtual talk: Let's build and deploy your blog already

Happy Monday folks!

New Post! Lighthouse Treemap

I just put the finishing touches on Explore JavaScript Dependencies With Lighthouse Treemap: Discover all JavaScript downloaded and used/unused for a site in a handy data visualization with Lighthouse Treemap.

Let me know what you think!

New post on AVIF in Cloudinary

As promised, here's my quick post giving you some extra details about using AVIF with Cloudinary. It includes demos of course as well as details on the transformation costs: What to know about AVIF on Cloudinary.

Caching fonts on Netlify

In case you missed it, last week I realized that Netlify doesn't automatically cache font files. I had assumed it, and you know what assuming does... 🍑👯

New post: a retro on my old Twitter series

I published a new post, #30DaysOfWebPerf: The Pros and Cons of a Twitter series. It's been a long time coming since I did the series at the end of 2019. Recently I've been contemplating other ideas for delivering serial content in smaller chunks.

I just enabled AVIF on Cloudinary... Wow

You can already use AVIF on Cloudinary with the picture tag - see How to Adopt AVIF for Images With Cloudinary.

New post on web performance!

I'm excited that I just published How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources: a Deep Dive. It's a longer-form article that is written more for beginners to web performance. I spent a lot of time trying to depict the critical render path as diagrams - let me know what you think!

WebPageTest Twitch

WebPageTest has a new Twitch stream! If you ever wanted to get better at performance profiling, Tim Kadlec is great to watch. He's also going live on the Learn With Jason livestream today!

Updated post on Google Fonts

As promised, I've updated my post Making Google Fonts Faster. I added more thoughts on preload and talk about inlining CSS as an alternative to help the browser discover the font faster.

Syndicating posts tip

For folks aspiring to be Indie Webbers... This week I added more of my posts to Dev. I believe everyone should own their own content - especially if a provider goes down, you don't want to lose all that valuable writing! But you can still cross-post to sites like Dev and Medium. You just have to make sure you set canonical links on your website and on the syndicated posts to both point to your website's version of the article.

New Eleventy Meetup

I'm super excited to announce a brand new virtrual meetup I'm co-organizing with Vince Falconi and Stephanie Eckles on Eleventy!

I was on a focus group for GDE's who have also run DevFests when I realized that while the pandemic made in-person and regional meetup attendance go down, it actually increased reach for meetups focused on a particular technology. Thus blossomed my Eleventy meetup idea.

How has the pandemic affected your tech community, both good and bad?

In case you didn't have enough newsletters in your inbox, I've decided to add another to the crowd. :) I plan to keep these short and sweet because who has time to really read all that email???

New Content

I often do talks for newer developers, and learning what serverless is like and what it is capable of is something I wished I had seen when I was in my bootcamping days. I wrote up the live demo as a tutorial to help folks try it out on their own:

Going Intergalactic with Serverless Functions on Netlify - Get started going serverless with Netlify functions and Netlify-CLI for keeping secrets secret