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Effective Skeleton Screens

I have never been a fan of progress bars and spinners, and skeleton screens seemed like a smart step in the right direction.

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The Cost of Javascript Frameworks

There is no faster (pun intended) way to slow down a site than to use a bunch of JavaScript.

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Building with Friction

I recently wrote about how important it is to make the right thing easy. The opposite is also true: it's important to make the wrong things difficult.

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When CSS Blocks

The other day I was auditing a site and ran into a pattern that I've seen with a few different clients now.

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Using the Platform

This permanence to the web has always been one of the web’s characteristics that astounds me the most.

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Less Data Doesn't Mean a Lesser Experience

Someone on Twitter expressed concern about providing a "degraded experience" to users who have Save-Data enabled.

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The Ethics of Web Performance

One question I've seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern.

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Risking a Homogeneous Web

Last week I had the opportunity to present at a technical SEO conference about performance.

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Choosing Performance

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Why we need responsive images: part deux

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Why we need responsive images

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Beyond Responsive