Revealing Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization Techniques

24/11/2022 41 min Episodio 1
Revealing Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization Techniques

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To start off the podcast, Dominik and Steffen dive deeper into the question: for what or for whom should PageSpeed be optimized?The user should be in the main focus of PageSpeed optimization, because a fast website contributes to a good UX. But should you consider users who come for the first time to the homepage or should you look at returning visitors?On the other hand a high PageSpeed score is one of the most important numbers for website clients these days. Does increasing the score - without the user in mind - force developers to think of techniques to trick the measurement tool?Highlights00:00 Intro / Understanding Core Web Vitals01:06 What did Dominik do to optimize the Bleech website?02:16 What is Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization?04:36 Should you consider Core Web Vitals or page speed ranking?17:15 How did we optimize the page speed of bleech.de?22:52 Why is this way blackhat?26:57 The problem with Third-Party Scripts29:08 What's the future of website optimization?39:27 Wrap upLinksOur website: https://bleech.dePageSpeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/Core Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/Plausible: https://plausible.io/Borlabs Cookie: https://borlabs.io/borlabs-cookie/Flynt WordPress Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/Partytown: https://partytown.builder.io/web-vitals JavaScript Library: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitalsMore from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)