Improving UX Through Front-End Performance

By Justin Avery, 14 March 2013 posted in News

This is a great post that looks at one of the biggest issues facing Responsive Design…. Performance.

Website performance starts with design. Weigh a design choice’s impact on page speed against its impact on your site’s conversion rate. Do you really need eight different shades of blue? What value does this 1,000px-wide background image add? Will replacing a sprite with an icon font actually add more page weight and slow rendering, or will it be faster than the original image?
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