Posts Tagged ‘Optimization’

Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

Mobile, Optimization | Posted by Keefr May 8th, 2013

This is right up my alley: fast loading and efficient mobile. While this is pretty extreme, it’s pretty cool at the same time — minimizing load time to the nth degree.

Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

The One Less JPG Movement

Optimization | Posted by Keefr April 29th, 2013

Love everything and anything that’s about optimizing web sites. I don’t know why. I’ve got a weird obsession. On the surface, “The One Less JPG Movement” is real simple — to compensate for added JS (file size and http requests), remove at least one image.

One Less JPG

A CSS Redundancy Analyzer That Analyzes Redundancy

CSS | Posted by Keefr April 12th, 2013

Man, I love web-based tools like this. Even the description is awesome:

A CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy.

csscss: A CSS Redundancy Analyzer That Analyzes Redundancy

15 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress: Why Slow Page Load Equals Slow Blog Growth

Optimization, WordPress | Posted by Keefr March 28th, 2013

I’ll all about eeking speed out of my sites. Sadly, my personal sites lag behind in that category when compared to the professional web development projects I’m involved in. WordPress adds another layer of inefficiency, and this list I came across the other day seems like a great checklist of things to do to improve your sites performance.

Adding this list to my toDo for both this site and Keefer Madness.

15 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress: Why Slow Page Load Equals Slow Blog Growth

Forget JavaScript, It’s Time for Browsers to Speed Up Images

Browsers, Optimization | Posted by Keefr March 26th, 2013

Was going through the site, and found this post started in the drafts folder. While the article was published quite a few months ago, it’s still as valid today.

This is totally right up my alley. We spend so much time optimizing and minimizing JavaScript and CSS (to a lesser extent). Images have been so overlooked. We really need a better compressed, cross-browser format.

Forget JavaScript, It’s Time for Browsers to Speed Up Images

Optimization: How to Lose Weight in the Browser

CSS, HTML, Optimization | Posted by Keefr March 18th, 2013

Love this in-depth article about optimizing your web properties. I have been a proponent of a lot of this already, but there’s some new things in here I want to try and/or incorporate.

How to Lose Weight in the Browser

Hat tip, Bret

Website Speed FTW – Why Milliseconds Matter

Optimization | Posted by Keefr March 15th, 2013

Be concise and efficient with your code. I’m a big fan of optimizing your web properties in every which way that you can, and it turns out that the magic number presently is 250 milliseconds. Interesting article:

Website Speed FTW – Why Milliseconds Matter

The Importance of Site Speed in Web Design

Optimization, Web Development | Posted by Keefr February 26th, 2013

This is right up my alley. I’m a huge fan of doing everything in your control to optimize the speed of your web properties. Nice read.

The Importance of Site Speed in Web Design

Deadline Crunchers: Timesaving Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Optimization, Web Design | Posted by Keefr February 19th, 2013

The key to efficiency on any computer application is mastering and utilizing the keyboard as much as possible, instead of navigating multiple levels of nested menus via the mouse or various panels.

Photoshop is the easiest application I’ve come across to quickly ramp up productivity by using the keyboard as much, or more than the mouse sitting beside it. But there always seem to be more keyboard commands and combinations to learn.

The article below does a great job of running through some of them:

Deadline Crunchers: Timesaving Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Visually Re-Engineering CSS For Faster Paint Times

CSS, Optimization, Web Development | Posted by Keefr February 12th, 2013

I had never heard of paint times when talking about browser web page rendering prior to the article below. Now I feel like I need to geek out a bit on exploring paint times via the Chrome dev tools on various web properties I’ve worked on.

Visually Re-Engineering CSS For Faster Paint Times