All websites should be designed for slow internet on the train
By designing the leanest, most efficient solutions and prioritising the loading of essential information ahead of trivia and bloat, we can deliver better experiences for everyone.
Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs
Your website is slow, but the backend is fast. How do you diagnose performance issues on the frontend of your site? We'll discuss everything involved in cons...
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published
In 2019, eBay prioritized a company-wide initiative, aptly called “Speed,” focused on improving the performance of critical eBay flows across all platforms — iOS, Android, and Web. This article explains the journey and outcomes.
The performance community is growing. With 17K members across 46 meetup groups it's pretty easy to find someone else who cares about performance. But what if your company is new to the world of high performance websites? How can you make performance a priority within your organization? I don't have
[TL:DR]: This post quickly gives a way to measure the "ad weight" rather than "page weight" which is well-known. This is important consideration, given that it represents the bytes attributable to revenue. Background & Motivation The web performance community knows a lot of page weight with a
In the middle of last month (July 2018), I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia would load. If I was lucky, the page started rendering 15-20 seconds after I sent the request. If not, it could be closer to 60 seconds, assuming the browser didn’t just time out on the connection.
Convenience always comes at a price. On the web, developer convenience often means third-party JavaScript—and we pass the hefty cost on to our users. Jeremy Wagner shows us how to get and keep thir…