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Subscribe to the RSS feedMaking Analyze CSS render 6 times faster
A deep-dive in how the Analyze CSS page renders 6 times faster by applying 2 basic principles.
A deep dive into the CSS of Instagram.com
Let's have a look at the interesting parts of analyzing instagram.com.
What's new in Project Wallace: January 2023
It's been a pretty busy month with lots of fixes and new features.
2022 in review
2022 was a good year in many ways for Project Wallace. New features, in-depth blog posts and a steady stream of new CSS enthusiasts.
A new online CSS prettifier
There's a lot of places on the web already where you can prettify your CSS already, but here's why Project Wallace now also has it's own prettifier.
CSS complexity: it's complicated
There's lots of places in CSS to have complexity, but we tend to focus on selectors most of the time. Let's have a look at other places too.
New: CSS Code Quality analyzer
It's like Lighthouse, but for CSS specifically.
2021 review in numbers
First day of a new year! Let's have a look at some numbers from projectwallace.com of 2021.
CSS Analyzer v5 released
The core of everything that powers Project Wallace just got a big upgrade. And it's pretty good!
New Online CSS Analyzer
Project Wallace's online CSS analyzer got a facelift!
Writing docs
Documentation for all Project Wallace's metrics is absent, and I'm currently working to bring them up to speed.
Private projects are here
Private projects have been one of the most requested features over the years and it's now available for paying users!
How Project Wallace extracts all CSS from any webpage
Extracting all CSS from a webpage involves more work than you might expect. Here's how Project Wallace does it.
CSS Analytics in Chrome DevTools
The people at Chrome DevTools are joining the CSS Analytics game!
New feature: delete your account
There is no use in keeping your account on Project Wallace if you're not using it, so starting today you can remove all your data with a single click.
Sorting CSS <time> values
Support for analyzing CSS animations and transitions was added recently, but to display that nicely, animation-durations need to be sorted. Let's dive into sorting time.
Analyzing CSS animations
Project Wallace now supports analysis of CSS animation and transition durations and timing functions.
Counting Lines of Code in CSS
Project Wallace introduces Lines Of Code for CSS. Compare projects or files based on the amount of lines of code, instead of file size or guesswork.
Cancel subscription
If you want to unsubscribe from your paid plan, you now can smash a big [downgrade] button in your account settings. No questions asked.
Automatically analyze CSS on every push
Most users of Project Wallace analyze their CSS by pushing the 'new import' manually, but did you know you can automate the import process?
Integrating Constyble into your build process
Integrating Constyble into your build process will help you automate complexity testing for CSS. This post explains how to do that.
Privacy by default
A recent REWORK podcast episode triggered me thinking about user privacy and this post explains how we deal with privacy.
The CSS Tricks 2019 redesign in numbers
CSS Tricks got a fresh coat of paint and boy, does it look good! But what exactly changes in CSS statistics after such a big redesign?
Detecting color aliases
Color aliases accidentally slip into your codebase and now you have multiple notations for the same color. Great, now what?
Sorting colors in CSS
Sorting colors in CSS is hard. I've found a method to make it look pretty decent
Introducing Gromit
Gromit is a tool that runs in your builds and checks if the stats do not exceed any tresholds that you have set.
New feature: empty rulesets analysis
It is a tiny new feature, but starting now you can analyze how many empty rulesets your CSS contains.
css-analyzer is now on NPM!
You can install css-analyzer via NPM now!
@font-face descriptors are not properties
Sometimes there are less properties reported than you are expecting. Here is why.
Project Wallace CSS Analyzer is now on PostCSS
We've switched to PostCSS for generating the AST for our analysis, and did some other fixes under the hood too.
The PHP CSS project that was released. And abandoned right away.
Today marks the point where a new PHP CSS parsing/analyzing library is released publicly. And abandoned immediately.
New libraries released!
Two new libraries were released that will contribute to a better and faster API to power the Project Wallace website.
*Tap, tap.* Is this thing on?
The project is coming to a stage where everyone can test it, but a fair warning: it is still unstable!