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Yes, and that's a different technique from simply serving a smaller file. Supplying multiple sizes of the same image lets the browser pick an appropriate resolution, but it's still the same composition. When the framing itself needs to change, a tall crop on a phone and a wide one on a desktop, you use the picture element with separate sources tied to screen width, each pointing at a genuinely different file. It costs an extra export per image, so we reserve it for the handful of images where the composition actually breaks rather than applying it everywhere.

That's usually a color profile being dropped in conversion. Files exported from design software often carry a wide-gamut profile, and if the encoder discards it the browser assumes a standard profile and renders the values differently, which shows up as muted or shifted color. Converting to the standard web color space deliberately before encoding, rather than letting a tool guess, keeps the result predictable. For work where fidelity genuinely matters, embedding the profile is worth the extra kilobytes, and it's worth checking output on a calibrated display rather than trusting the preview in the export dialogue.

Often it should go. Parallax requires the browser to recalculate and repaint on every scroll frame, and on a mid-range phone with a large background image that work doesn't fit into the frame budget, so scrolling judders. You can mitigate it by using transforms the graphics hardware can handle, keeping the moving layer small, and disabling the effect entirely below a certain screen width. But be honest about the return: it's a decorative flourish, and a page that scrolls smoothly reads as better built than one that moves cleverly and stutters.

When the content fits the shape the template was built for, when the business isn't trying to look distinct from its competitors, and when the money saved goes somewhere it earns more, usually photography and written content. A well-chosen template with your own images and properly written pages beats a thin custom build every time. The point where it stops being the right call is when you find yourself paying for repeated customisation, or when the template's weight is holding back performance you actually need. At that stage you're renovating rather than saving.

Over-sensitive thresholds. If the script toggles the header on any change in scroll position, small movements, momentum bounce at the top of the page, or the slight scroll a keyboard opening causes will all flip it repeatedly. Adding a minimum distance before it reacts, ignoring the bounce region entirely, and throttling how often the handler runs will settle it. It's also worth asking whether the behavior earns its complexity: a slim header that simply stays put costs nothing to maintain and never flickers on a device you didn't test.

Very likely, and the reason is usually that each one loads its assets on every page rather than only where it's used. A calendar plugin's stylesheet and scripts get requested on the contact page, the gallery's on the homepage, and so on, so a simple page carries the weight of features it doesn't display. Auditing which plugin loads what, and conditionally loading each only where needed, usually recovers a lot. It also tends to reveal two or three plugins doing something a few lines of code would handle, which is the cheapest weight to remove.