Every time I have to sift through NewRelic RUM data when optimizing a website’s speed, I have to go through past notes, reports and messages. To address this pain, this is a collection of the most common queries & other information I use as a starting point for RUM data analysis.

This post evaluates if frequently pinging website urls is a reliable approach to mitigate cold start delays for websites hosted on Node based serverless platforms like Vercel or Netlify.

Between the start of 2021 and now, I got opportunities to optimize CSS loading for three different React websites. This post details the options I considered, the criteria I evaluated and the choices I made in process of doing so.

At one of my clients, we evaluated if there’s something more performant than styled-components & still keeps the developers happy. This post details the experience and findings from the exercise.