Performance
Creating a Performance Culture
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
Measuring AdWeight
[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
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
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.
Why Performance Matters | Web Fundamentals
Thanks to mobile device and network proliferation, more people are using the web than ever before. As this user base grows, performance is more important than ever. In this article, find out why performance matters, and learn what you can do to make the web faster for everyone.
Page Weight Matters
Three years ago, while I was a web developer at YouTube, one of the senior engineers began a rant about the page weight of the video watch page being far too large. The page had ballooned to as high as 1.2MB and dozens of requests. This engineer... | Chris Zacharias | Founder of imgix. YCombinator alum. Ex-YouTuber. Studied New Media at RIT.