Issue #50 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. It's the Black Friday edition! 📧 Living in a driverless future. 🚗 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

You can now create and manage PHP, JS, CSS, and HTML code snippets from inside Perfmatters! We store and load code snippets using a flat-file method and directly integrate with all of our existing optimization options for the best performance. ⚡ See more here: perfmatters.io/docs/code-sn...

Our annual Black Friday sale on Perfmatters and Novashare is live! 🔥 Get 30% off new licenses as well as upgrades through December 2nd. Discount code: BLACKFRIDAY Make sure to also check out some of the other awesome deals we rounded up. woorkup.com/black-friday/

Had a great chat with Lawrence on the WPBakery team! 🎙️ Some topics we discussed: - Content marketing and branding/visibility. - Is affiliate marketing more important now than ever? - How AI is shifting/changing the market. wpbakery.com/blog/excerpt...

Issue #49 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 The fragility of the internet. 💥 Not everything needs to be smart. newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.5.2 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* perfmatters_rucss_inline_stylesheets filter. This allows you to inline any stylesheet already excluded from used CSS. ⚡ - Reworked the Script Manager input change event listener for better compatibility with other JS running.

Version 1.6.3 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* AI share buttons for Claude and Google AI, which link to a prompt that will summarize the shared post’s content. 🤖 - *New* novashare_ai_network_text filter. Allows you to adjust the text that is passed through to an AI network prompt.

Issue #48 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 I finally made AI my default search engine. 🤖 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.5.1 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Added a fetchpriority high attribute on critically preloaded image tags to match the preload link attribute. This resolves a PSI warning in certain instances. ⚡ - Added built-in stylesheet exclusion for the GeneratePress offside menu.

Issue #47 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 The healthcare system in the US is a joke. 🏥 brianleejackson.substack.com/p/tidbits-fr...

When folks ask me if they should use WordPress or another platform for their business... 🙃

Version 2.5.0 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! A quick update for the WP-CLI folks. 😄 - *New* WP-CLI subcommands: clear-minified-js, clear-minified-css, and clear-local-fonts. 👨‍💻 - Added support for targeting header element when using parent selector matching functions. (1/3)

The new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model is fun to play with. 😂

Version 1.6.2 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* AI share buttons for ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity, which link to a prompt that will summarize the shared post’s content. 🤖 - *New* follow button for Nextdoor. - Updated Nextdoor brand colors. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 (1/3)

Enjoyed this sitdown with WPLegends! We talk work-life balance, WordPress plugins, SEO landscape, and even Netflix recommendations. 😄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQ6...

Version 2.4.8 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Added built-in stylesheet exclusion for Bricks layer stylesheets. - Adjusted emoji_svg_url filter to only return false outside the admin dashboard. - Updated early hint attribute check to include sizes and media attributes. ⚡ (1/3)

Issue #46 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Finding the perfect mouse. 🖱️ newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.4.7 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* support to set the Perfmatters license key via wp-config.php using the PERFMATTERS_LICENSE_KEY constant. 🔑 This has been highly requested from our agency clients. - *New* perfmatters_fetch_priority filter. (1/4)

There are times when I can relate. 😅

Issue #45 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 AI changed everything regarding content marketing. 🤖🪦 brianleejackson.substack.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 1.6.1 of our Novashare plugin is live! - Refactored specific portions of the main frontend stylesheet. We were able to reduce the CSS file size by an additional 7.69% (now under 2.5 KB)! ⚡ Recommend clearing all cache layers after updating to take advantage of the speed gains. (1/4)

Version 2.4.6 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* advanced preload option to enable Cloudflare Early Hints (BETA) for Perfmatters preloads, along with controls to limit which file types will have early hint link headers sent. (1/7)

Friendly reminder. On June 19th, I'll be doing a website performance AMA with @theadminbar.com! ⚡ Got something you want to ask me? Submit your questions here: theadminbar.com/events/websi... ✏️ YouTube live: www.youtube.com/live/9nQjmfc... 🎥

Issue #44 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 We saw a ~29% decrease in image sizes moving from WebP to AVIF! ⚡🗜️ newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.4.4 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* exclude leading option for lazy loading CSS background images. This allows you to more quickly and broadly target containers and then automatically exclude a hero CSS background image from lazy loading. ⚡ (1/5)

We've just published v5.0.0 of the web-vitals JavaScript library for measuring Core Web Vitals. github.com/GoogleChrome... As a major release, this includes a number of breaking changes as detailed in the upgrading doc: github.com/GoogleChrome... Please read carefully before upgrading. 1/5 🧵

On June 19th, I'll be doing a website performance AMA! ⚡🚀 Got something you want to ask me? Submit your questions and sign up for the event here: theadminbar.com/events/websi... Big thanks to @theadminbar.com for putting this together.

Big changes are coming to PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is moving to performance insight audits. 😮🔥 - ETA is October 2025. 🗓️ - There is a switcher in the meantime to get used to things. - Some audits are being renamed while others are being removed. developer.chrome.com/blog/moving-...

It's no secret I love working with GeneratePress clients! It's the solution I've used to build all of our sites since 2017. ❤️⚡ Here are some tips on using both Perfmatters + GeneratePress together. Thanks @zant.com for putting this together! 👏 generatepress.com/using-perfma...

Issue #43 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Quite an exciting month, from a gas leak 🚒 to a DDoS attack (7+ million requests). 🥷 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.4.3 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! *New* Speculative Loading options for sites running WordPress 6.8 or higher. You can change the mode and eagerness. ⚡ - We are deprecating Instant Page for anyone running WordPress 6.8 or higher. (1/2)

Version 1.6.0 of our Novashare plugin is live! -*New* share button support for the Nextdoor network. 🏠 -*New* total share count and network share count options for the share button section with additional frontend styles to display the total share count at the top of the share window. (1/2)

Some exciting things coming in WordPress 6.8 (ETA April 15th). - Speculative loading API. ⚡ - Interactivity API push for asynchronous handlers to reduce INP. 🔥 - Warning for devs overusing useSelect. 🐌 - Bcrypt for password hashing. 🔒 - Multiple block type registration.

I'm late to the party. 😄

Had a great chat with @rogerbikes.com from Kinsta about some of my background... from Netzero dial-up internet to WordPress. ☎️⚡ Once my family bought our first computer (Compaq Presario), I was hooked when I discovered you could make money online. 🫰

Issue #42 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Reflecting on past failed projects/ideas. 💡❌ newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.4.1 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! Refactored our delay JS inline script, removed the pageshow event listener, more aggressively uglified the code. Resulted in a 15% decrease in the script size (32% uncompressed). 🔥 It's in addition to the 8% reduction back in 2.3.7. (1/5)

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Version 1.5.9 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* location follow button (great for Google/Apple maps, location pages, etc.) 🗺️ Remember, you can also add your own custom buttons, meaning unlimited possibilities. (1/5)

Issue #41 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Living by the golden rule, online and offline 🤝 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 2.4.0 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* perfmatters_rucss_async_stylesheets filter. You can now async any stylesheet that you want. - Added built-in async settings for dashicons and animation stylesheets. Improves Elementor performance. ⚡ (1/6)

Great news! As expected, Speculative Loading is coming to WordPress core. Even sooner than I thought. ⚡ They will most likely default to "prefetch/conservative." So we might add a toggle in Perfmatters to easily swap that to "prerender/moderate." 👍

This is going to be one of the best updates of the year! 🔥

Version 2.3.9 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* perfmatters_preloads_array filter. Gives you access to the preloads data array for use in custom integrations. 👨‍🔧 - *New* perfmatters_minify_threshold filter. (1/5)

Issue #40 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 We all have those experiences as kids that stick with us. Mine was getting lost in the Sawtooth mountains. ⛰️ newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Version 1.5.8 of our Novashare plugin is live! - *New* Added a show labels control to the follow buttons block. - Updated all blocks to API version 3 to support rendering the block inside the post editor iframe. 💻 - Fixed multiple deprecated UI element warnings showing in the block editor. (1/3)

It's been one of those days. ☕😅🤦‍♂️

Version 2.3.7 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Removed unnecessary documentWrite handling function from delay JS inline script to reduce the size by over 8%. ⚡ - Updated admin bar menu UI to show clear all used CSS everywhere, instead of just in the backend. (1/6)

Hope everyone is having a good holiday! 🎄 Issue #39 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 I'm attempting my first home renovation project 🪚😅 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

Great post from @programmingart.bsky.social on some things that would be great to have in Chrome DevTools. ⚡ The UI changes (showing preloads, fetch, LCP element, defer, etc.)... 💯 @debugbear.com is great in this regard. calendar.perfplanet.com/2024/top-8-t...