Server & hosting Jul 22, 2026
AI Crawler Load: When Bots Slow Down Your Server
Bots generate over half of all HTML requests. Why AI crawlers hit uncacheable long-tail URLs, how to measure the load and throttle it instead of blocking.
14 min read
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Core Web Vitals & measurement Jul 20, 2026
Soft Navigations: Measuring Core Web Vitals in SPAs
Single-page apps only report the first load to CrUX. How the Soft Navigations API from Chrome 151 measures route changes and splits LCP, INP and CLS per route.
14 min read
Core Web Vitals & measurement Jul 17, 2026
Reduce DOM Size: Fewer Nodes, Faster Interactions
Reduce DOM size: cut style and layout work with pagination, virtualization, content-visibility and flatter markup to improve INP and Core Web Vitals.
12 min read
Server & hosting Jul 15, 2026
Brotli or Zstandard: Faster Web Compression 2026
Brotli, Zstandard or Gzip for web compression in 2026: which method delivers the smallest transfer size and fastest response - static and dynamic alike.
12 min read
Front-end optimisation Jul 13, 2026
Back/Forward Cache: Instant Browser Back-Navigation
How the back/forward cache keeps whole pages in memory and makes back navigation instant: blockers, Cache-Control: no-store and testing in DevTools.
13 min read
Fundamentals & strategy Jul 10, 2026
Sustainable Websites: How Performance Cuts CO2
Sustainable websites: how fewer bytes, lean JavaScript and efficient caching cut the CO2 footprint while improving Core Web Vitals at the same time.
12 min read
Shops & CMS Jul 8, 2026
Page Speed and Conversion: How Speed Drives Revenue
Every second of load time decides conversion and cart value: how speed drives revenue, what 100 milliseconds are worth and Core Web Vitals in euros.
12 min read
Front-end optimisation Jul 6, 2026
Speculation Rules: Instant Navigation via Prerendering
How the Speculation Rules API prefetches or prerenders next pages, tunes eagerness correctly, and avoids wasted prerenders and analytics side effects.
13 min read
Fundamentals & strategy Jul 3, 2026
RUM vs. CrUX: Using Field Data Right for Speed
Lighthouse lab scores do not affect ranking. Google rates Core Web Vitals via CrUX field data at the 75th percentile. How to use RUM, CrUX and budgets.
15 min read