How to Conduct an Accessibility Audit of Your WordPress Site
Website accessibility is something of a buzzphrase that most developers and designers know is really important and is something they should do, but don’t really know how to get started or have the time to put processes in place, so they simply put it off. The fact is, websites that don’t make accessibility a priority…
How to Use the RAIL Performance Model to Measure Your Site’s Speed
How do you measure website performance? There’s a lot of information online about how to optimize websites, but how do you really know when you’ve done enough? To help developers measure their optimization efforts—and to remind them to put users in the middle of the performance story—a couple of Googlers have developed the RAIL model.…
Replacing Animated GIFs with HTML5 Video for Faster Page Speed
Animated GIFs, more than any other digital file format, have captured the hearts and minds of online users. But man, they’re so damn hard to optimize!I once spent an hour trying to tweak the quality, frame rate, and length of a GIF, ultimately giving up because I couldn’t get the file below 2 MB without…
