Private by Default
Feedbin has removed third-party iframes and JavaScript (oEmbed provides a nice alternative), as well as stripping out Google Analytics, and even web fonts that aren’t self-hosted. This is excellent!
Redux: Lazy loading youtube embeds
Remy has an excellent improvement on that article I linked to yesterday on using srcdoc with iframes. Rather than using srcdoc instead of src, you can use srcdoc as well as src. That way you can support older browsers too!
Related links
Standing still - a performance tinker | Trys Mudford
What Trys describes here mirrors my experience too—it really is worth occasionally taking a little time to catch the low-hanging fruit of your site’s web performance (and accessibility):
I’ve shaved nearly half a megabyte off the page size and improved the accessibility along the way. Not bad for an evening of tinkering.
How To Improve Largest Contentful Paint for Faster Load Times - Calibre
A no-nonsense checklist of good performance advice from Karolina.
The Crushing Weight of the Facepile—zachleat.com
Using IntersectionObserver to lazy load images—very handy for webmention avatars.
Lazy Loading Images and Video | Web Fundamentals | Google Developers
Jeremy Wagner offers a deep dive into lazy loading images (and video) with some advice for considering the no-JavaScript situation too.
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Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever.
content-visibility in Safari
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Numbers
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