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Manual PageSpeed runs are honest; they also do not scale

2d ago · 4 min read · Few teams pretend manual PageSpeed checks are useless. When you are about to merge a template change, or a client is pressing for an answer on one URL, opening PageSpeed Insights and reading the films

Performance rituals that fail (and one that stuck)

5d ago · 3 min read · Every agency accumulates performance rituals. Some look serious on a slide deck; few survive contact with a packed sprint board. Below are three habits we see fail repeatedly, and one lightweight rhyt

Your client read the performance PDF. Then nothing happened.

May 7 · 5 min read · You sent the report on Friday, and the client replied on Monday: "Looks good, thanks." Then nothing moved. If you work in an agency, this is familiar. The report was not wrong. The metrics were there.

Seven third-party script patterns we triage before touching CSS

May 6 · 6 min read · We still hear the same opener in client calls: "Could this be our CSS?" Sometimes yes. Often no. On plenty of sites, the first real bottleneck is not your h1 style or a spacing token. It is third-party JavaScript that arrives early, executes long, an...

Welcome: performance for people who ship client sites

May 2 · 3 min read · If you manage many sites (agency retainers, a freelance roster, or an internal portfolio), you already know the feeling: Lighthouse opens fine on Tuesday, a client forwards a complaint on Wednesday, and nobody agrees which metric actually matters. Fi...