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:fries: The definitive front-end performance guide
A static site collecting front-end performance tips, covering CSS, JS, images, and jQuery — written in multiple languages. It was a solid reference circa 2013–2015 for developers who didn't know to put scripts at the bottom or avoid inline styles. The audience today is mostly people who stumble onto it via a search result.
The multi-language support (8 languages) is genuinely well-executed for a community project of this era. The tip content is sourced and linked — not just assertions, each recommendation traces back to a reference. The separation of content into per-tip Markdown files made community contributions straightforward. The DocPad-based static generation kept hosting trivial.
Last updated in 2021 (and barely touched since 2015), so the advice is frozen in time — HTTP/2 makes several bundle-everything tips actively wrong, and the jQuery section is a museum exhibit. The toolchain (DocPad 6.78.4, CoffeeScript config files) is effectively unmaintained and will fight you on any modern Node version. There is no acknowledgment anywhere in the content that HTTP/2 changed the calculus on bundling and connection limits, which means readers following the guide could make their sites slower.