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Revealing Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization Techniques

November 24, 2022 Bleech Episode 1
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Revealing Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization Techniques
Show Notes

To start off the podcast, Dominik and Steffen dive deeper into the question: for what or for whom should PageSpeed be optimized?

The user should be in the main focus of PageSpeed optimization, because a fast website contributes to a good UX. But should you consider users who come for the first time to the homepage or should you look at returning visitors?

On the other hand a high PageSpeed score is one of the most important numbers for website clients these days. Does increasing the score - without the user in mind - force developers to think of techniques to trick the measurement tool?

Highlights
00:00 Intro / Understanding Core Web Vitals
01:06 What did Dominik do to optimize the Bleech website?
02:16 What is Blackhat PageSpeed Optimization?
04:36 Should you consider Core Web Vitals or page speed ranking?
17:15 How did we optimize the page speed of bleech.de?
22:52 Why is this way blackhat?
26:57 The problem with Third-Party Scripts
29:08 What's the future of website optimization?
39:27 Wrap up

Links
Our website: https://bleech.de
PageSpeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/
Core Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/
Plausible: https://plausible.io/
Borlabs Cookie: https://borlabs.io/borlabs-cookie/
Flynt WordPress Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/
Partytown: https://partytown.builder.io/
web-vitals JavaScript Library: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals

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