Website Performance & Accessibility
Core Web Vitals, caching, images and WCAG.
ok so search Console flagged the home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: Watching teh page load on my phone, I can see content jump down at least once. My gut says its an embedded review widget, because thats teh last thing we…
I'm optimising a news style page and the content jumps around while it loads. Images pop in and push text down, and a banner slot at the top expands after a moment xD Lab tools flag cumulative layout shift as the main…
im fixing a navigation menu soemone built with <div elements and click handlers... it works with a mouse, but u cant open it with the keyboard and screen readers just announce "group". an accessibility audit flagegd…
ok so i did everything teh optimization guides recommended, including a redesgin. The result: LCP is worse than before, and teh report points at the main headline. It feels like teh optimization made things slower. Is that possible? Id like to keep teh…
Our homepage LCP regressed and stakeholders are asking why: the only notable change is switching to a new CDN. mobile is much worse than desktop. a product photo is reported as the LCP element 🔥 what tools and steps do you use to break LCP down into its…
guys pls help search Console flagged mobile category pages for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: Watching the page load on my phone, i can see content jump down at least once. My gut says its an embedded review widget, cuz thats the…
After switching to a new CDN, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP eleemnt is a product photo 🔥 Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size 🔥 Yet it clearly paints much later now. Im trying to…
Accessibility dsicussion time. I keep seeing strong opinions about auto playing carousels, and both sides sound very sure of themselves. For an online shop, we want to do the right thing, not just teh thing that looks good on a checklist. How do you decide…
so annoyed rn we got a copmlaint that ppl tap the wrong button on product pages cuz things move right as they tap... then I checked teh vitals: CLS is in teh red, lighthouse on my desktop says its fine, which confuses me even more. is there a way to see the…
search Console flagged teh home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: watching the page load on my phone, I can see content jump down at least once :D my gut says its an embedded review widget, because thats teh last thing we…
so annoyed rn performance has been my pet project for months and we were finally all green. Then this: CLS regressed on the home page after a few small releases 🤦 Nothing darmatic changed in the layout. The suspcets are an image carousel and maybe a font…
ok so our homepage LCP regressed and stakeholders are asking why: the only notable change is installing an optimization plugin... mobile is much worse than dsektop. a product photo is reported as the LCP element... what tools and steps do you use to break…
ok weird one I'm building a startup landing page and the topic of infinite scroll came up in a planning meeting. We're a small team with a limited budget, so priorities really matter. Some people think it's a quick win for accessibility, others think it's a…
ok so after adding lazy loading everywhere, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP element is a product photo. Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size. Yet it clearly paints much later now. Im…
long time lurker first post lol search Console flagged teh home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and teh PageSpeed report agrees: watching the page load on my phone, i can see content jump down at least once. my gut says its teh cookie banner, because thats…
hmmmm ok we got a complaint that people tap the wrong button on the checkout page cuz thigns move right as they tap. then I checked teh vitals: CLS is in teh red. Lighthouse on my desktop says its fine, which confuses me even more. Is there a way to see the…
Performance has been my pet project for months and we were fnially all green. Then this: CLS regressed on mobile category pages after a few small releases... nothing dramatic changed in teh layout... the suspects are a web font swap and maybe a font chagne…
so annoyed rn performance has been my pet project for months and we were finally all green. then this: CLS regressed on blog articles after a few small releases. Nothing dramatic changed in teh layout. The suspects are an embedded review widget and maybe a…
long time lurker first post lol i did eevrything the optimization guides recommended, including adding lazy loading everywhere. The result: LCP is worse than before, and the report points at the main headline. it feels like the optimization made things…
ok weird one im building a startup lnading page and the topic of custom styled dropdowns came up in a planning meeting. were a small team with a limited budget, so priorities really matter. some ppl think its a quick win for accessibility, others think its a…
I did everything teh optimization guides recommended, including installing an optimization plugin... the result: LCP is worse than before, and the report points at the main headline 😂 It feels like the optimization made things slower. Is that possible? Id…
long time lurker first post lol im building a university portal and teh topic of custom styled dropdowns came up in a planning meeting... were a small team with a limited budegt, so priorities really matter, some ppl think its a quick win for accessibility,…
After a theme update, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP element is a slider's first slide xD Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size. Yet it clearly paints much later now. I'm trying to…
accessibility discussion time. I keep seeing strong opinions about automated audit scores, and both sides sound very suree of themselves, for a government contractor's site, we want to do the right thing, not just teh thing that looks good on a checklist,…
