The WebKit team has rolled out a notable change in the 26.2 beta with support for two major performance APIs. This update moves Safari significantly closer to full Core Web Vitals support.
January 26th, 2024 marks one year since all major browsers fully supported AVIF. For years, developers used `picture` elements to provide WebP or AVIF images while falling back to JPEG for browsers lacking support. Now, with universal AVIF compatibility, these workarounds may no longer be necessary.
Are your Core Web Vitals failing due to a LCP over 2.5s? Let's fix it! The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of the most important metrics in measuring web performance - more specifically - it's the one that measures loading speed. While absolutely vital for UX and conversions, still 40% of world wide sites fail at passing this metric. Let's deepdive in understanding and improving the LCP and get those numbers up!
Google Chrome's version 112 brings a significant update to the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric, which will now ignore images with very low content relative to their display sizes. This change aims to improve the accuracy of LCP measurements and help web developers optimize their websites' performance. In this article, we will discuss the changes in LCP and how they may affect a site's metrics.