Better Site Speed: 4 Outside-the-Box Ideas
Posted by Tom-Anthony Most of us have done site speed audits, or seen audits done by others. These can be really helpful for businesses, but I often find they're quite narrow in focus. Typically we use well-known tools that throw up a bunch of things to look at, and then we dive into things from there. However, if we dig deeper, there are often other ideas on how site speed can be improved. I often see plenty of opportunities that are never covered in site speed audits. Most site speed improvements are the result of a bunch of small changes, and so in this post I’m going to cover a few ideas that I’ve never seen in any site speed audit, all of which can make a difference. A different angle on image optimization Consider optimized SVGs over PNGs I was recently looking to book some tickets to see Frozen 2 (because of, erm, my kids...) and so landed on this page . It makes use of three SVG images for transport icons: SVG images are vector images, so they're well-suited for ...