Google launched its ‘Learn Performance’ course. The course is designed for those new to web performance. It covers key web performance concepts and techniques for improving performance. At least… that is what the label says. Not SEO related? It tells you that website performance is about retaining users, improving conversions and improving the overall user experience. The relationship between performance and business outcomes is clear. It is remarkable, and typical for Google, to not sa...| Usecue web development
Good websites load instantly. Almost everybody who wants a faster loading website uses a CDN (Content Delivery Network). This is a network of servers, distrubuted around the world, where every websites is available on every server. What does a CDN do? A CDN does two things: it caches your files/requests (make them static and keep them in memory) and it serves them from a server near your geographical location. This should normally save time.| Usecue web development
My website is 40kb large and is an instantly loading website. That is great, but it used to be pretty spartan looking. To fix this, I added some images of banana leafs (on desktop only). But, even when I converted them to SVG, they were still many times larger than my full website. That was very bad for page load times and did not fit my (relatively new) reputation as a performance expert.| Usecue web development
Green is not only good for your brand, but also more important then ever. ICT is already responsible for more than 4.5% of the energy use worldwide. We have to take action… but how? It seems simple: Make sure that your website uses less energy and make sure that this energy comes from sustainable resources. But how do you realize that? Let us take a look at the energy usage. What is the energy usage of a website made of? It consists of the energy usage of the server and the energy usage of ...| Usecue web development