Contentful Delivery Optimization

Performance is a contract between Contentful's CDN, your Next.js cache, the browser, and the editor's mental model of "publish should be fast." This skill owns that contract.

Pair with contentful-graphql (query shape is the upstream variable), contentful-react-wrapper (where revalidation tags live), contentful-webhooks (the event source), contentful-rich-text (image-heavy bodies), and contentful-localization (locale-keyed cache fragmentation).

When to use this skill

• Core Web Vitals work on a Contentful-driven site.
• Cold-cache pages on launch day are slow.
• Image weight is dominating LCP.
• A search index or downstream consumer needs to stay in sync without ramming the API.
• The team is debating static export, ISR, or on-demand revalidation.
• A dashboard or editor tool needs sub-second freshness.

Core posture