Secrets to Lightning Fast Portfolio Sites

Great visuals are worthless if the page crawls. Here are the optimizations that make our portfolio feel instant.

Key Techniques

• Converted heavy images to WebP and generated blur placeholders for smooth loading.
• Implemented smart image preloading with a useSmartPreloader hook.
• Used React.memo and functional updates to avoid unnecessary renders.
• Trimmed animation delays and leveraged GPU acceleration with transform-gpu.
• Lazy loaded components with suspense fallbacks to keep the bundle lean.

The result is a site that scores well on Core Web Vitals and loads quickly even on mobile connections.