performance-optimizer

A review and repair process for website loading speed, covering images, styles, scripts, fonts, and other files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect asset sizes and compression, find unnecessary loading work, apply optimizations, and compare performance before and after changes.
Why use it?
It helps identify files or code that make pages load slowly, especially on mobile devices or slower connections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrhinkle/vibecoding-a-website/performance-optimizer
Any agent
npx skills add mrhinkle/VibeCoding-a-Website --skill performance-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrhinkle/VibeCoding-a-Website

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5c1ba3cb16a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-optimizer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run_lighthouse.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/performance-optimizer/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Optimizer Skill

Overview

This skill audits and fixes page load performance issues on websites. It analyzes images, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and assets, then generates a before/after performance report with specific optimization recommendations and implementation steps.

Why Performance Matters

  • User Experience: Pages that load in under 3 seconds have 40% higher conversion rates than those taking 6+ seconds
  • SEO Rankings: Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor; slow sites rank lower
  • Mobile Performance: 53% of users abandon sites that take over 3 seconds to load on mobile
  • Cost Savings: Optimized sites consume less bandwidth and server resources
  • Business Impact: Every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% in sales

Key Optimization Areas

1. Image Optimization

Why it matters: Images typically represent 50-80% of page weight. Optimization directly impacts load time.

Checks performed:

  • Image dimensions: Ensures images aren't larger than displayed size
  • Compression ratio: Recommends lossy compression for photos, lossless for graphics
  • WebP conversion: Identifies images that should use modern WebP format (25-35% smaller)
  • Responsive images: Detects missing srcset for different screen sizes
  • Lazy loading: Identifies above-the-fold images loading eagerly vs below-the-fold images
  • Format selection: PNG for graphics, JPEG for photos, SVG for icons, WebP for all

Deliverables:

  • List of images requiring optimization
  • Compression commands (ImageMagick, cwebp)
  • HTML code samples for srcset implementation
  • Lazy-loading implementation guidance

2. CSS Optimization

Why it matters: Render-blocking CSS prevents the page from painting. Unoptimized CSS increases file size and parse time.

Checks performed:

  • Minification: Removes whitespace, comments, unnecessary characters
  • Critical CSS: Identifies styles needed for above-the-fold content
  • Unused CSS: Detects unused selectors (especially from frameworks like Bootstrap)
  • Media query optimization: Ensures mobile-specific CSS isn't loaded on desktop
  • CSS file splitting: Suggests code splitting for large stylesheets
  • Animation efficiency: Recommends transform/opacity over layout-triggering properties

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 204 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5c1ba3cb16a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrhinkle/VibeCoding-a-Website (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,751 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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