31 stories tagged web-performance, newest first.
165 points by textlanes33 | 104 comments
A developer's blog post explaining how replacing Next.js with Hono and using Cloudflare CDN and image transformations got their blog platform to 100 on all Lighthouse scores.
9 points by textlanes33 | 0 comments
Landing page for Bloffy, a lightweight blogging platform with a Markdown/HTML editor, custom CSS, custom domains, cookieless analytics and high PageSpeed scores.
307 points by farlight | 195 comments
Jake Archibald's blog post comparing JPEG XL and AVIF image formats for web use, with examples and benchmarks, after JPEG XL landed in all major browsers.
8 points by eatonphil | 2 comments
An article on theconsensus.dev about how compression and file concatenation interact in web asset delivery.
117 points by Brajeshwar | 133 comments
A personal blog post about finally adopting the WebP image format after years of using older formats, reviewing its browser support history.
75 points by torutofu | 64 comments
GitHub Engineering blog post describing how github.com fully migrated away from CSS-in-JS to improve site performance by shipping static CSS.
179 points by matthieu_bl | 113 comments
Engineering blog post from Anthropic's Claude team describing how they made claude.ai three times faster in two weeks by having Claude measure and optimize performance.
408 points by kciter | 141 comments
A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.
437 points by howToTestFE | 204 comments
A blog post by Dennis Brotzky breaking down the technical architecture that makes the Linear issue tracker feel fast.
526 points by k1m | 210 comments
Website Spec is a platform-agnostic specification and checklist of 128 technical features a good website should have, covering SEO, accessibility, security, and agent readiness.
706 points by hrncode | 403 comments
Hacker News discussion thread with screenshots showing LinkedIn consuming 2.4 GB of RAM across two browser tabs.
798 points by JumpCrisscross | 363 comments
Blog post criticizing a PC Gamer article recommending RSS readers for its popups, ads, and 37MB page weight that keeps downloading.
492 points by llm_nerd | 300 comments
A Daring Fireball post by John Gruber linking Shubham Bose's essay on news sites like the NYT loading 49MB and hundreds of requests, criticizing ad-laden web bloat.
756 points by kermatt | 331 comments
Blog post auditing news publisher websites, noting a New York Times page made 422 requests and loaded 49MB, criticizing ad-driven page bloat.
561 points by handfuloflight | 126 comments
Patterns.dev is a free online book and resource on design, rendering, and performance patterns for building web apps with vanilla JavaScript or modern frameworks.
407 points by rpgbr | 310 comments
Blog post examining why Nextcloud's web interface feels slow, pointing to large JavaScript payloads and long load times shown in browser devtools.
391 points by todsacerdoti | 221 comments
A blog post on lyra's blog arguing that modern HTML and CSS features can replace much of what JavaScript frameworks are used for on the web.
417 points by talboren | 322 comments
A GitHub Community discussion reporting that the GitHub website has become extremely slow and unusable on Safari, especially for large pull requests and files.
681 points by tambourine_man | 438 comments
Blog post by Jono Alderson arguing that modern CSS features like view transitions make single-page application architectures unnecessary for most sites.
431 points by truxs | 282 comments
Blog post explaining how TCP slow start makes web pages under about 14kB load noticeably faster than slightly larger pages.
679 points by tipiirai | 493 comments
Nue blog post announcing a release that demonstrates building full single-page apps with web standards (HTML, CSS, JS) that are smaller than a React button.
428 points by ChiptuneIsCool | 69 comments
A blog post describing a technique for creating minimal blurry low-quality image placeholders using only CSS.
317 points by pier25 | 568 comments
Alex Russell blog post arguing that teams should abandon framework-first habits like React and instead do deliberate engineering for web performance.
593 points by Shank | 270 comments
ACM Digital Library page for a WWW '24 research paper finding that QUIC underperforms TCP-based HTTP/2 on high-bandwidth networks.
511 points by Kubuxu | 185 comments
Blog post describing a trick to compress a website's HTML by encoding it into a lossless WebP image and decoding it in the browser, compared with gzip and Brotli.
333 points by surprisetalk | 207 comments
Frontend Masters blog post explaining that YouTube iframe embeds weigh about 1.3MB and how the lite-youtube web component cuts that to roughly 100KB.
927 points by jader201 | 363 comments
A blog post from brr.fyi, written from Antarctica, on how software and websites behave on slow, high-latency internet and how engineers should design for it.
781 points by jasondavies | 490 comments
Dan Luu essay benchmarking how popular websites and platforms perform on slow, low-end devices like the Tecno Spark 8C and Itel P32.
502 points by kevincox | 218 comments
Mozilla Hacks blog post describing how Firefox performance improved for real users during 2023, based on field metrics.
487 points by janpio | 160 comments
Blog post by Nicholas Ray describing how Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time was reduced by about 300ms through front-end performance work.
686 points by cheeseblubber | 193 comments
Linen blog post explaining how they reduced their open-source Slack/Discord alternative's client bundle to about 500KB gzipped using webpack bundle analysis.