More and more often I hear conflicting opinions between those who consider the loading performance of a website important and those who instead consider the aesthetics and design of the site fundamental.
In an age of convenience and speed, the news of Core Web Vitals has greatly influenced the perception of performance that a website should have, both in companies and in professionals.
For this reason I wanted to have on my blog an opinion from someone who works with these disputes on a daily basis and has also managed to resolve them for the WordPress community.
Here are the questions I asked Jose Mortellaro that do not only concern minimal design but also broader concepts such as user experience .
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How important do you think performance is in a web project?
Why did you create the “Freesoul Deactivate Plugins” plugin?
What other web performance plugins does it integrate best with?
What will be the advantages of the PRO version?
Can a perfect site be the right combination of minimalist graphics and careful choice of plugins?
How important do you think performance is in a web project?
I consider performance not as a goal but as a consequence of the work you do when you create a website. This does not mean that I do not consider it important, but that I consider everything that comes before the final result more important. When I work on a site I do not set myself the goal of having the maximum performance, but of having the best possible relationship between the quality and quantity of resources needed to capture the attention of visitors and the consumption that these Qatar Phone Numbers
resources entail.
I work with my wife who is the designer, let's say she is the one who tends to increase the numerator of the fraction, and I am the one who tries to reduce the denominator, but in the end we both work to grow that relationship. I do not consider style and design as the enemies of performance, instead I feel the mission to do everything possible to allow style to express itself in the best way.
My wife in turn tries not to exaggerate with MB to facilitate my work. Having an excellent relationship between design and consumption, consequently leads to good performance. Usually the final result is a fairly high-performance site, but this is only one of the aspects that characterize the creation of a site.
Why did you create the “Freesoul Deactivate Plugins” plugin?
Freesoul Deactivate Plugins was born as a reaction to Revolution Slider . It was the time when my wife wanted to install Revolution Slider in all the sites we were making. I think Revolution Slider needs no introduction, but for those who don't know it, it's a plugin that allows you to include very attractive sliders in the page, the problem is that to achieve its goals it loads very heavy scripts and style sheets and it does this in all pages even where you don't have sliders.
I was nibbling away at milliseconds here and there with our theme, and then he came along with his JavaScript libraries and ruined years of theme optimization work. But my wife wanted it, I had to decide between my wife and Revolution Slider, so I came up with Freesoul Deactivate Plugins.