Most major browsers have support for .woff font format for quite awhile now. The number is around 85%+ with IE8 is the most high profile exception. But … who actually cares about IE8 right! Chances are if you are reading my blog, you won’t be using it anyway 1. Ok, I’m convinced. How do I download …

The idea is to lazy-load web fonts once everything else loaded completely, store them in localStorage to be used for subsequent pages. A cookie is used as a flag to check if the fonts are cached in localStorage. There are something to note: If visitors disable cookie, this method will backfire as the webfont will be …

Prioritize above the fold content and defer loading CSS can significantly improve your site’s rendering speed (impression, at the very least) and PageSpeed score. Basically, you will inline those CSS rules so that content above the fold (content visible without scrolling down) can be render right away (instead of …

Static assets bundling I wrote a post about static assets combine on jekyll but the idea is similar to other framework. You can even do this on Wordpress via plugin called W3TC IIRC. As for your theme’s images, use CSS sprites to combine it to a single image. There are many tools for this purpose. This step is …