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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/09/2026

Issue #60 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 I really wish Mac had an OS-level equalizer. 🔊 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 09/09/2026

1/ Version 2.6.8 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* highly requested safe mode option to disable all performance optimizations sitewide (excluding security/code snippets). 🚧 - *New* inline excluded stylesheets option to automatically inline stylesheets excluded from remove unused CSS. ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 31/07/2026

Issue #58 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 How wp2shell took down our site, 😨 but not the way you think. newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Tidbits from Brian - Issue #58

How wp2shell took down our site, 😨 but not the way you think.

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mattzeunert.com @mattzeunert.com · 17/07/2026

We've just launched a new free tool: the Website Bottleneck Finder detects which resource requests hold back the FCP, LCP, and H1 rendering time! www.debugbear.com/website-bott...

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Website Bottleneck Finder

Find which network resources slow down page rendering. Check if your page depends on specific scripts or data.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/06/2026

Version 2.6.5 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* code snippet URL-based conditions for path contains, path equals, and path regex. This enables every possible combination. 👨‍🔬

Perfmatters code snippets URL-based conditions

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/06/2026

Issue #57 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Adding "exercise snacks" to my daily routine. 💪 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Tidbits from Brian - Issue #57

Adding "exercise snacks" to my daily routine. 💪

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/05/2026

Issue #56 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 WordPress 7.0 - Things you might have missed 🔍 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 28/05/2026

Version 2.6.3 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - *New* option to select the editor theme for code snippets and global scripts. 🎨 10 themes included (Ayu Dark, Ayu Mirage, Dracula, Eclipse, Idea, Material, Monokai, Neo, etc.). You can also upload a custom CodeMirror 5 theme stylesheet.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 20/05/2026

WordPress 7.0 is here! 🎉 A few things I'm excited about. - New UI (+view transitions) - AI connectors - Custom CSS for individual blocks - Block visibility based on viewport - Font management - CodeMirror update to v5 - OPCache added to site health Great overview here: kinsta.com/blog/wordpre...

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What's new in WordPress 7.0: AI integration, new blocks, and much more

AI integration, new blocks, and advanced tools for developers and designers. Here's what's new in WordPress 7.0.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 29/04/2026

Version 2.6.2 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! *New* Automatically optimize and lazy load Elementor Atomic YouTube elements and legacy video widgets when Perfmatters iframe lazy loading is turned on. YouTube preview thumbnails are also supported, as well as Elementor image overlays if set. ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 10/04/2026

Version 2.6.1 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! This is a quality-of-life update to improve compatibility across the board. 👍 - Made some adjustments to our code snippets error handler initialization logic to avoid unnecessary handling if no relevant code snippets are active.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 31/03/2026

Issue #54 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 AI content is 90% engagement farming/slop and 10% insanely useful. 🫣 newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Tidbits from Brian - Issue #54

AI content is 90% engagement farming and 10% insanely useful. 🫣

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 25/03/2026

Version 2.6.0 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Updated PHP CSS Parser library to 9.3.0. This includes many improvements for our Remove Unused CSS feature (more accurate parsing/compatibility). ⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 27/02/2026

Issue #53 of my monthly newsletter "Tidbits from Brian" just went out. 📧 Using AI to troubleshoot performance issues. 🤖⚡ newsletter.brianleejackson.com/p/tidbits-fr...

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Tidbits from Brian - Issue #53

Using AI to troubleshoot performance issues. 🤖⚡

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 27/02/2026

Version 2.5.8 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - Code Snippets is out of beta. 🎉 We appreciate all of you who took the time to test and provide feedback. - Added new perfmatters_lazyload_data_src filter. - Added nav selector support for functions that target elements inside parent containers. 👨‍🔧

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 16/12/2025

I talked about this more in the beginning of my @perfnow.nl talk this year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqE9... (on Speculation Rules—another builtin, initially simple to use feature in HTML!)

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Speculations about Web Performance - Barry Pollard - performance.now() 2025

YouTube video by Web Conferences Amsterdam

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 12/12/2025

Version 2.5.5 of our Perfmatters plugin is live! - New options to export code snippets (globally, individually, and bulk select) and import them to another site. 🚛 - New code snippets admin bar menu item that will show if a snippet is present. More changes: perfmatters.io/docs/changel...

Code snippets bulk select and individual export

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 24/10/2025

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.

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 23/10/2025

Please, please don't use `font-display: swap` with icon fonts. I mean, as a rule, don't use icon fonts — SVGs are so much better — but if you must, then don't use `swap`. It doesn't make sense to see random fallback letters for icons. Do me a favour and check your site now if using icon fonts.

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 10/10/2025

Lighthouse 13 has been released and includes the final move to Insights performance audits as announced previously. developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...

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What's new in Lighthouse 13 | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Lighthouse 13 is here with the move to Insights audits

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/09/2025

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...

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Tidbits from Brian - Issue #48

I finally made AI my default search engine. 🤖

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/09/2025

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.

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Brian Jackson 🌵 @brianleejackson.com · 30/09/2025

- Fixed a trailing slash validation warning coming from critical image preload tags. - Disabled the Remove Comment URLs toggle when Kadence is active due to an incompatibility. We appreciate all the feedback from those of you who reported issues. 👏 perfmatters.io/docs/changel...

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Changelog - Perfmatters

2.5.1 – 09.29.2025 2.5.0 – 08.26.2025 2.4.9 – 08.12.2025 2.4.8 – 08.11.2025 2.4.7 – 07.15.2025 2.4.6 – 06.17.2025 2.4.5 – 05.16.2025 2.4.4 – 05.08.2025 2.4.3 – 04.15.2025 2.4.2 – 04.02.2025 2.4.1 – 03...

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 25/09/2025

Cache Rules Everything, a fantastic talk by @csswizardry.com about the browser cache. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQj...

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Harry Roberts - Cache Rules Everything

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