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Lazy-loading iframes can lead to data savings for your users, faster page loads, and quick interactivity for your site.

Here's a really detailed look at 18.5 million domains and how they stack up against Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

In the final post of the why of website optimisation series we'll take a look at how better performance online can equate to a better user (or customer) experience.

This is the fourth post in a series where I'll outline how website optimisation can help you with SEO performance.

This is the first in a series of five posts where I'll outline the benefits that can be derived through website optimisation.

This is the third post in a series where I'll outline the environmental benefits that can be derived through website optimisation.

In this second post of the why of website optimisation series we'll go into how you can reduce your operational costs through better site performance.

Eleventy is one heck of a powerful, incredibly flexible static site generator. This short guide will show you how you can generate CSV data files using Eleventy.

Images often combine to make up the largest group of resources on a web page (in terms of file size). Therefore, optimising images is one of the easiest steps any website owner can take when looking at improving the performance of their website.

When we share content on social media we want it to be read. This blog posts introduces how Open Graph tags can be used to present eye-catching, consistenly branded shared content across social media platforms.

This post stems from a conversation I had with a good friend of mine last week. We were talking about how to boost website traffic, and conversions. As I explained to him, and as we'll get to in this post, there's more to the game than just fresh, keyword laden content.

This quick code note will go through creating a simple component in Svelte that allows us to switch the theme of our website between light and dark.

As a freelancer, and someone who was working remotely in the months before COVID-19 you'd think not a lot has changed for me since. In this post I go through what life is like in Taiwan, and how the coronavirus pandemic has also led to a change in my daily working habits.

Here's a really quick little code note that shows how to create rotating buttons using just a tiny bit of JavaScript and some CSS.

I recently found myself having to create a website that presented a lot of data in tabular format. This post goes through two approached that I tried out. Firstly, using table markup and horizontal scrolling, and then looking at how it can happen with CSS Grid.

I was working on a recent project that required me to create a customized select dropdown. It had to clearly, neatly show two sets of data (jobs and locations), and look good in the process.

A recent project required a collapsible section of content to remain expanded on desktop and collapsible on mobiles. Here's how I made it work with a handful of CSS.