Optimizing Images for Web Performance

By

Todd Gardner

on February 10, 2025

This post was originally published on this site. Images make websites look great, but they’re also the biggest performance bottleneck. They add huge file sizes, delay Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and can even mess with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) if they aren’t handled properly. And while developers are quick to optimize JavaScript and CSS, images are often ignored—despite being the heaviest assets on

Mastering Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

By

Todd Gardner

on November 5, 2024

This post was originally published on this site. The web keeps changing—and so do the ways we measure web performance. Google recently updated its Core Web Vitals metrics, dropping First Input Delay (FID) in favor of a new and improved interaction metric: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). FID was a step in the right direction, measuring how