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Optimized my portfolio's First Contentful Paint from 2.6s to 0.2s today.
Two things were blocking render:
The Tailwind CDN, which loads a ~400KB script and generates CSS at runtime.
Google Fonts, which adds a DNS lookup and TLS handshake to a third-party domain on the critical path.
Fix one: compiled Tailwind locally into a 4.4 KiB static stylesheet. Only the classes actually used, no runtime.
Fix two: self-hosted Inter via @fontsource-variable/inter so the font loads from my own domain.
Also deferred the interactivity script so it downloads in parallel with HTML parsing instead of blocking paint.
Result: 0.2s FCP on desktop, 1.5s on emulated slow 4G. Both inside Google's "good" threshold.
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