Tim Kadlec helps organizations build faster, more effective websites through sustainable web performance practices. He writes about performance culture, metrics, and real-world optimization strategies.
220 articles from this blog
An introduction to using Phing, a free automation tool, to streamline and automate performance optimization tasks in web development.
Web development involves balancing trade-offs like performance, accessibility, and semantics, not treating them as binary choices.
Announcing the Breaking Development 2011 conference in Dallas, focused on mobile web design and development with a curated speaker lineup.
Explores how color psychology influences user perception of website speed and responsiveness, offering design tips to make sites feel faster.
Debunks common myths about web performance optimization and explains why it's crucial for user experience and business metrics.
Explores the design principle that tools with limited, well-defined options foster greater user intimacy and enduring value than feature-packed alternatives.
Discusses the confusion around HTML5 and CSS3 definitions, using a viral article's inaccuracies as a case study for constructive tech discourse.
Advocates for a user-centric approach in tech projects, prioritizing user needs over company goals for better outcomes.
A developer uses Webgrind, a PHP profiling tool, to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in inherited code, reducing database queries and page load time.
Author shares their SXSW panel submission on web performance and neuroscience, and recommends other tech-focused talks they hope get selected.
Introduces CSSEmbed, a tool for converting CSS image references to data URIs to reduce HTTP requests and improve website load times.
A critique of web design professionalism, arguing that poor client relationships often stem from the designer's own failures in process and planning.
Google categorizes mobile users into three behavior groups to help tailor app and website experiences for different usage patterns.
Analyzes the debate between native vs. HTML5 mobile app development, arguing for web apps to reach wider audiences across platforms.
An overview of Google's Page Speed tool, detailing its performance auditing rules and advanced features for web optimization.
Analysis of Steve Jobs' open letter on Apple's decision not to support Flash on mobile devices, discussing proprietary standards and HTML5.
Discusses Google's ranking algorithm update prioritizing site speed, addressing web designers' concerns about balancing aesthetics with performance.
A review of the SpriteMe bookmarklet, a tool for creating CSS sprites to optimize website performance by reducing HTTP requests.
A practical guide to quickly improving website performance using free tools for image compression, CSS/JS minification, and sprite generation.
A developer launches a redesigned blog, switching from a custom VBScript system to WordPress with HTML5/CSS3 and expanding content beyond web development.
