web-performance-optimization

A guide for measuring and improving the speed and responsiveness of web applications. It explains Core Web Vitals, Google’s user-experience measurements for loading, interaction, and visual stability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interpret Lighthouse reports, investigate page-load and interaction issues, optimize images and other assets, tune network or runtime behavior, and set speed limits for a project.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague reports that a site feels slow into measurable problems and targeted fixes. It also covers asset size, network delays, runtime work, monitoring, and performance budgets.

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/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills/web-performance-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add plugin87/full-stack-design-skills --skill web-performance-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plugin87/full-stack-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,887 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 $0.00111 $0.03887
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01944
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00777
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00389

Measured 2d ago against content hash 66646e1beaf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-performance-optimization 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.

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/web-performance-optimization/SKILL.md · 514 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 514 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Performance Optimization

A practical guide to measuring, diagnosing, and improving web application performance.

Performance is a user experience feature. A fast site converts better, keeps users engaged, and ranks higher in search. This skill covers the metrics that matter, tools that measure them, and concrete optimization strategies.

Core Web Vitals: The Three Metrics That Matter

Google's Core Web Vitals are the three quantitative measures of user experience. They directly impact search rankings and user satisfaction.

1. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)

What it measures: How fast the largest visible element (text, image, video) appears on screen.

Target: < 2.5 seconds

Why it matters: Users perceive "fast" as "appears quickly." If the main content takes 4+ seconds, users bounce.

What counts as LCP:

  • <img> elements
  • <image> inside <svg>
  • Backgrounds with background-image
  • Text blocks (paragraphs, headings)
  • Videos (poster frame)
  • Canvas elements

What doesn't count:

  • Off-screen images
  • Transparent images
  • Text in canvas

Example LCP Timeline:

0s    — Page begins to load
0.8s  — Hero image starts loading
1.2s  — Hero image finishes (LCP = 1.2s)  ✓ Good (< 2.5s)
2.1s  — Page fully interactive

Optimization strategies:

  • Preload critical images (<link rel="preload">)
  • Compress images aggressively (WebP format, lazy loading for below-the-fold)
  • Use a CDN for fast global delivery
  • Avoid render-blocking CSS/JavaScript
  • Use server-side rendering for critical content

2. First Input Delay (FID) → Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

What it measures: Delay between user input (click, tap, keystroke) and browser response.

Target: < 100ms (FID) or < 200ms (INP)

Why it matters: Slow response feels like the app is frozen. Users think something broke and abandon the interaction.

FID vs. INP:

  • FID (First Input Delay): Only measures the first user interaction. Being fast once doesn't mean consistently fast.
  • INP (Interaction to Next Paint): Measures all interactions throughout the page lifetime. More realistic; now recommended over FID.

Read the full file on GitHub · 514 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 514 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 66646e1beaf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-performance-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository plugin87/full-stack-design-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,887 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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