Performance Lessons from Small Brighton Websites
Small Brighton websites can still be slow. Here are practical performance lessons on images, scripts, hosting, mobile UX, and maintainable fixes.
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Website performance is about far more than chasing a Lighthouse score. It covers the speed, responsiveness, stability, and efficiency of the experience people actually receive, alongside the engineering discipline required to protect those standards across content changes, feature growth, and repeated releases.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about Performance, performance optimisation and Core Web Vitals. This is an area I have worked with for many years, and it has been a regular subject in my writing. There are twenty‑six articles collected together for you below.
Performance Lessons from Small Brighton Websites. 
Incremental Static Regeneration and CMS Publishing Freshness. Incremental Static Regeneration and CMS Publishing Freshness
How Incremental Static Regeneration affects CMS publishing freshness, including rebuild timing, stale pages, previews, and editorial expectations.
Image Optimisation with next/image. Image Optimisation with
next/image`next/image` explained with responsive sizing, lazy loading, layout shift reduction, and why image optimisation matters in real Next.js applications.
Responsive Images for Faster Front‑End Pages. Responsive Images for Faster Front‑End Pages
How responsive images make front‑end pages faster by serving suitable sizes, preserving quality, reducing wasted bytes, and avoiding layout shifts.
Optimising gatsby‑image Even Further. Optimising
gatsby‑imageEven FurtherOptimise gatsby‑image further with sensible maxWidth, quality settings, native lazy loading, GraphQL image data, and avoiding oversized assets in Gatsby.
Setting Front‑End Performance Budgets. Setting Front‑End Performance Budgets
Set front‑end performance budgets for page weight, scripts, images, requests, Core Web Vitals, and user experience before delivery pressure erodes them.
Optimising Website Performance with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Optimising Website Performance with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Boost website performance with HTML, CSS & JavaScript optimisation. I explore techniques: lazy loading, critical CSS, script deferment for faster load times.
Optimising HTML Markup for SEO. Optimising HTML Markup for SEO
Optimise HTML markup for SEO and accessibility with semantic elements, heading structure, alt text, clean code, anchor text, and crawler‑friendly structure.