Web Vitals

How do you measure and track good UX? That’s a challenging topic and there are no silver bullets. Google has recently made some suggestions for important metrics to track called Web Vitals – Essential metrics for a healthy site. If your website performs well in these metrics, it’s highly likely that your users are having a nice experience as well.

These metrics will be part of the upcoming new version of lighthouse as well and will change the performance score calculation. So, better prepare for that already now and make sure your site is performing well. These metrics are already available in webpagetest.org and you can try how your website scores on those metrics and whether you need to improve on those.

Betterer v1.0.0

Do you know that feeling when maintaining a legacy project, there’s something you would like to improve but the code base is so messed up? So you end up creating a huge, long-living PR that never gets merged? Or a worse case where you agree to fix it later, but nothing will be done ever.

Betterer is a tool that can be used in legacy projects in order to stop making the projects worse over time, and at the same time gradually encourage making it better over time. Read the whole announcement of the v.1.0.0 of Betterer and check the example use cases.

Dealing with Ads in 2020

Ads and other third party JavaScript resources are often reasons for a slow website and a bad user experience. But some businesses rely on ad revenue, and that means you will have to deal with it and make the best possible user experience while also allowing the ads to get loaded and rendered. Dealing with ads has a lot of challenges from a user experience and web performance point-of-view. Here’s a detailed write up on some of the challenges and one way of solving those challenges.

Talk: Accessibility, Back to the Future

by Bruce Lawson | Monki Gras 2019

A super interesting and highly entertaining talk about how the web was accessible, responsive and performing right from the beginning, but then we, Developers, broke the web. This talk nicely highlights the fundamentals of the web and how those are abandoned by many.