Decision time
Balancing the ledger.
In my experience, 99% of the time Web Performance boils down to two problems:
- “You wrote too much JavaScript.”
- “You have unoptimized images.”
But as Dave points out, the real issue is this:
I find that Web Performance isn’t particularly difficult once you understand the levers you can pull; reduce kilobytes, reduce requests, unblock rendering, defer scripts. But maintaining performance that’s a different story entirely…
Balancing the ledger.