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…
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.
Optimizing Encoding and Transfer Size of Text-Based Assets
Next to eliminating unnecessary resource downloads, the best thing we can do to improve page-load speed is to minimize the overall download size by optimizing and compressing the remaining resources.
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.
Now that HTTP/2 is enjoying greater ubiquity than ever, it’s especially important to challenge the once unquestionable rule of resource bundling in client side performance. Join Stefan Baumga…
High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images (responsive and normal), iframes and more, that detects any visibility changes triggered through user interaction, CSS or JavaScript without...