[rkagerer]

This page opens crazy fast (at least for me). Well done.

EDIT: Okay, still a few things they could improve on (https://gtmetrix.com/reports/csswizardry.com/N9gkLyhq)

[microcolonel]

The main content may load quickly, at least with javascript disabled, and that's a good thing; but I can hardly read the text though. 300 weight text at 51% grey is awful.

When I see pages formatted like this, I tend to make a decision between opening the inspector and fixing the fonts, or just not bothering to read it, since it's clearly not designed to be read.

Original: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/illegible.png

400 weight: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/better.png

400 weight and black: https://qui.suis.je/drop/faster/black.png (not necessarily an improvement, once the weight is normal).

[jandrese]

Yeah, I couldn't read through the whole page either. It seemed like they were trying to speed up the font by making it thinner and sleeker.

[shash7]

Simply bumping the weight upto 400 would make the site much more readable.

[csswizardry]

About to release this fix now.

[csswizardry]

Thanks for the feedback!

[youngtaff]

I'd question the validity of any scoring mechanism that's still using YSlow scores

[woodrowbarlow]

this page doesn't use web fonts.

> On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.

[csswizardry]

Thanks! Though GTMetrix hasn’t been considered a reliable or relevant tool for a while now, unfortunately.

[rkagerer]

I appreciate the tip! Is PageSpeed better? I checked Google's tool as well, before commenting. I went with the GTmetrix as I find the layout of how it portrays results cleaner.

[onion2k]

You'd hope so. csswizardry, aka Harry Roberts, is a web performance consultant. His job is to make websites load fast.