Writing

Notes on sustainable web development, performance tips for websites and apps, as well as a few other musings.

You can also find case studies featuring some of the optimisation and performance work I've done for clients.

Readle App - 500+ German Stories for Beginners to Advanced
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Readle - App Optimisation & Consultancy

Having worked primarily on website performance, the chance to work on Readle's native mobile apps was a new challenge. Here's how we improved app speed and delivered greater user satisfaction.

Graffiti art of a black security camera painted in a white frame.
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This website is a FLoC-free zone

I switched analytics away from Google late last year. Now, I've also added response headers that will exclude this site from FLoC calculations too.

white windmills in open fields during the daytime
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The environmental case for website performance

What's the link between a faster website and climate change? In this post I'll explain how you can help the environment by focusing on website performance.

CSS programming language
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CSS can probably do that

Rather than immediately reaching for JavaScript to handle on-page interactions, why not stop and think Could CSS do that? You'd be surprised, it probably can.

Screenshot of the Fathom Analytics dashboard (Source: Fathom Analytics)
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Google Analytics Alternatives

There's an increasing number of privacy-focused alternatives to Google Analytics. This article covers a few options you can use to keep your website visitors information out of the hands of digital advertisers.

Person holding black android phone scrolling Twitter.
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Optimising embedded content

Embedding content from Twitter or YouTube is pretty commonplace these days. However, the code these services provide isn't always the most optimised. Here we'll look at a few ways you can optimise pages on your websites that have Twitter/YouTube content embedded within.

White photo paper with printed icons in black and white.
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Web icons in 2021

This post is taken from Optimised, the fortnightly web performance newsletter I run. In it we look at the different options that you can consider, and why you really should be using SVG in 2021.