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PHP

  • Advocate for bumping the minimum PHP version: recent PHP versions are faster & lighter, so less CPU cycles and less energy consumption
  • PHP: Write more efficient code (for example use caches instead of repetative nested loops)

JS

  • Advocate for vanilla JS vs jQuery: Faster client-side and fewer assets to download
  • Advocate for service-workers in core
  • Find a way to remove the emojis script, or at least only load it when needed. It's 14kb on each page-load on 40% of the web, it's insane!

CSS

  • Advocate for more efficient styles
  • Advocate for CSS over JS where possible
  • Rethink inline styles for small assets
  • Advocate dropping IE11 support. Supporting IE11 adds lots of styles and JS and prevents us from following more modern practices.
  • Advocate for modern CSS: grid vs flexbox, css-variables

Assets

  • Advocate for properly sized images
  • Advocate for SVG over jpg/png etc

Design

  • Prefer system fonts over webfonts. If webfonts are necessary prefer local fonts over webfonts
  • Prefer dark color schemes over light
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