Precompressed HTML at the Edge: Eleventy Meets Cloudflare Workers
In this post, I will show you how I integrate Brotli level 11 compression directly into my 11ty build process to squeeze every possible byte out of my blog’s HTML.
Tagged “web-performance”
Asset fingerprinting and the preload response header in 11ty
I’ll be building on my earlier post about CSS asset fingerprinting, this time adding the preload response header into the mix. Together, these techniques make sure your browser grabs my blog’s CSS right away, keeping things fast and seamless.
The Speed Trifecta: 11ty, Brotli 11, and CSS Fingerprinting
In this post I bring two previous blog posts together to create the perfect CSS setup for my little blog.
Using an 11ty Shortcode to craft a custom CSS pipeline
In this blog post, I'll show you how I've written an 11ty Shortcode to manipulate my CSS file, thus allowing for optimal long-life cache-control response headers. Any feedback on this build process would be greatly appreciated.
Cloudflares Mirage 2.0 broke my images on all mobile devices
In this post, I review Cloudflare's image optimisation library, Mirage 2.0, and explain how it caused images on my blog to fail on all mobile devices for three weeks. I'll also offer suggestions to Cloudflare on how they can prevent this issue from impacting other Pro plan customers.
Cranking Brotli up to 11 with Cloudflare Pro and 11ty
In this post I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
Refactoring a Web Performance Snippet for Security and Best Practice
This post explores refactoring a web performance snippet to improve security and align with modern best practices using the PerformanceObserver and PerformanceNavigationTiming API's.
Remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from the GOV.UK assets domain
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from GOV.UK's assets being served from the assets domain and allow for greater HTTP/2 performance.
Enabling HTTP/2 on GOV.UK
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to enable HTTP/2 on GOV.UK. It was accepted and merged into the repository, and enabled in June 2020.
Enabling Brotli compression on GOV.UK
This is an RFC I wrote to persuade the GOV.UK Senior Technology team to enable Brotli compression on GOV.UK. It was accepted and merged into the repo, and enabled in March 2021.
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