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The MOST important Point is missing: GOOD CONTENT
Nothing is as important as good content.
There is so much useless content no the internet:
SEO Text (endless paragraphs of meaningless text in the hopes to please the gods of the search engines). AI generated text which adds no value to the knowledge we have. Outdated or misleading information. Useless or hard-to-find information.
Please, please make content the top priority.
If there is good content, users are willing to accept the most bloated and hard to use website.
If there is no good content, users will not care about the good craftsmanship you showed off on this website.
In our shop, we don’t even spin up a dev instance until we have 100% of the content for the site, and it’s gone through our in-house content manager.
sure, content is the most important thing
A lot of issues, altough it is not allmighty, can be spotted simply by using Lighthouse built-in Chrome devtools (F12). It will auto-check your page load and warn you about common flaws and problems. Just note, that running it towards your local dev server will give you much more optimistic results than the live site will (in terms of page loading speed). There are also services to mimic slow and unreliable networks even during development.
Also, it is always worth to check your HTML syntax towards the official validator, although with frameworks it is now less common to make mistakes.
I just wanted to say that this is a really great list.
For images, one can use elements as well as SVG files for performance/optimization boosts.
You can use defer to make it feel like the site is faster for JS and images.
Critical CSS is another idea but is kind of hard to figure out.
Another speed warning is about font-loading issues, or @import statements in CsS that can block the page.
Yes, optimizing images is important for improving website loading speed. While JPEGs and PNGs are popular formats, using an image format like WebP can offer significant benefits in terms of file size and quality with modern browsers today.
WebP is designed to provide good image quality but with smaller file sizes than other formats. This helps to reduce the amount of data that needs to be loaded, reducing page load time and improving the user experience.
To use WebP, you must create copies of your images in this format and then integrate them into your website. If the browser supports WebP, it will load this image, while browsers that do not support it will load the image in a different format if available.
In addition, consider using online or desktop image optimization tools to reduce file size without affecting quality too much. This will help to reduce page load time and optimize the user experience.
Here are some additional tips for optimizing images for your website:
By following these tips, you can help improve your website's performance and provide a better experience for your users.
From my experience for smaller images like thubmnails or logos .webp is not such a bit deal. Sometimes it is even bigger than original .jpg.
Or is it because of some compression settings? I am using GIMP.
yeah, for small images it's not that a big deal. BTW you can adjust the size of the image in gimp by adjusting the quality and alpha quantity that ask just before exporting the webp image
Optimizing your images can be achieved by using this online tool
shrinkme.app/
Don't forget about SVG!
Also, elements instead of![]()
gives you the flexibility on file sizes.
Great tips! I’m just starting. Any CMS recommendations to use?
Django CMS or Wordpress
Strapi is great tool , used it before
Pretty big deal to miss a CMS when deploying. There's something horribly wrong if you miss that.
Amazing brother keep it up
It’s great when you start reading an article and can’t put it down!
Good read
Cool! Nice post.
I would add testing and improve performance and rendering cycles and finally automate checks for vulnerabilities.
Thanks for providing tips for websites... I will surely focus on these factors before deploying the site 😀
Thank you for the tip, will follow 👍🏼
Can I throw in a good domain name? That is like the first touch point for anyone before they even land on any part of your website.
Awsome Guide Thanks for sharing 💖
Great Post, and really helpful for almost any type of website. I'm resuming my technical writing and used this as a check list on my blog site.
Exciting!
Great post touching on some really important issues.
In bonus tips you wrote avoid redirect. Why!? what's the problem with redirecting?
Deploying a website involves more than just uploading files to a server. Test your website on different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.) to ensure a consistent experience.
Responsive Design: Verify that your website displays correctly on various devices, including desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.