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Focus on Website Performance

We're big believers in website optimization and performance. Over the last few years we've taken an academic approach to how we can help the nonprofit websites we support become more performant. Here is a look at some of what we've learned.

SERIES: Frontend performance optimization for Drupal websites

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Frontend performance optimization for Drupal websites: Part 1

Effective cache policy is the topic of Part 1 of our series of articles that defines our approach to frontend performance optimization.
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Frontend performance optimization for Drupal websites: Part 2

Image optimization is the topic of Part 2 of our series of articles that defines our approach to frontend performance optimization.
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Frontend performance optimization for Drupal websites: Part 3

This is part 3 of a series of articles that defines our approach to frontend performance optimization. In this part we challenge the prevailing wisdom of the monolithic CSS file.
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Frontend performance optimization for Drupal websites: Part 4

This is part 4 of a series of articles that defines our approach to frontend performance optimization. In this part we squeeze more performance out through delivery optimization.

More Performance Goodness

Mobile performance when YouTube embed doesn't have a facade

Add a facade image for YouTube videos to improve performance

In this demonstration we look at what happens when we embed a YouTube video on a web page and then how to fix the performance problems that it brings. You'll be surprised by how much embedded YouTube videos hurt performance and how easy it is to solve it.