Anna Monus Anna is a technical writer who covers frontend frameworks, web standards, accessibility, WordPress development, UX design, and more. Head to her personal blog Annalytic for more content.

Stories by Anna Monus

5 Tricks to Eliminate Render Blocking Resources

9 tricks to eliminate render blocking resources

Dev

By reducing render blocking resources, you can shorten the critical rendering path and reduce page load times, thus improving UX and SEO.

Anna Monus
Jan 14, 2022 ⋅ 11 min read
Improving performance with HTML responsive images

Improving performance with HTML responsive images

Dev

Speed up your page load times and serve browser-sensitive images with tips from this tutorial on HTML responsive images.

Anna Monus
Jul 6, 2021 ⋅ 8 min read
Create Full-bleed Layout Using CSS Grid

How to create a full-bleed layout using CSS grid

Dev

Improve the readability of your webpage and reduce sidebar distractions by creating responsive full-bleed layouts using CSS grid.

Anna Monus
Mar 10, 2021 ⋅ 5 min read
What Happened to Web Components?

What happened to web components?

Dev

Web components are a great tool to increase efficiency for frontend development. But unnecessary obstacles for users are slowing their adoption and use.

Anna Monus
Jan 20, 2021 ⋅ 7 min read
5 New CSS Features You Can Test Right Now

5 new CSS features you can test right now

Dev

In this guide, we’ll focus on five new CSS features that you can already test in the stable version of at least one web browser.

Anna Monus
Oct 15, 2020 ⋅ 7 min read
Using Resource Hints to Optimize Performance

Using resource hints to optimize performance

Dev

Resource hints provide the browser with information to predict the user’s expected behavior. This enables it to prefetch, prerender, or preload resources in advance.

Anna Monus
Jul 2, 2020 ⋅ 8 min read
Variable Fonts: Is the Performance Trade-Off Worth It?

Variable fonts: Is the performance trade-off worth it?

Dev

Although variable font files are huge, they typically improve performance because they eliminate the need to use multiple font files.

Anna Monus
Mar 5, 2020 ⋅ 9 min read