Web Performance is good (and can be fun) An example Lighthouse score: I have a growing interest in web performance. I get joy out of using web performance tools and hopefully getting a good score on the pages I work on. It is a little like working to get a gold star and then see your website perform out in the big world! Performance matters on a big scale and small scale - Core Web Vitals is a ranking factor for Google SEO.

morganwebdev.com This is a post about my experience of simplifying my personal website down to an AMP page. My philosophy was incremental improvement using the validator and lighthouse test audits as guides. Additionally I added basic service worker functionality with the amp-install-serviceworker tag. The result is an excellent lighthouse score and a pretty excellent WebPageTest score on Core Web Vitals: I followed a number of steps to achieve this namely size bounding and inlining CSS and using the excellent Super Tiny Icons Repository