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Google Fonts Is Fast. Now It’s Faster. Much Faster — Using Google Fonts? It can often prove to be one of the bigger performance bottlenecks, but in this thorough guide Harry Roberts runs through several optimisations you can put in place to make things snappy.

Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters — Just how much does TTFB matter when it comes to frontend performance? Ultimately, "If you’re slow out of the gate, you’ll spend the rest of the race playing catchup."

Self-Host Your Static Assets — Outlines the disadvantages of hosting your static assets ‘off-site’, and the “overwhelming benefits” of hosting them on your own origin.

Tips for Technical Interviews — Advice on how best to prepare for and survive a technical interview.

Cache-Control for Civilians — An accessible look at what the HTTP Cache-Control header can do when it comes to controlling how your assets are cached. Covering strategies, asset management and more.