A wrap-up of Velocity NY 2016, covering trends in Real User Monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring, and the importance of WebPageTest for web performance.
Explains how rotating carousels, ads, and popups distort web performance metrics like Speed Index and offers a technical fix using WebPageTest's activity timeout.
A deep dive into advanced web performance audits using Chrome DevTools, with case studies on major sites like CNET and Time.com.
A concise guide to modern web performance optimization, outlining key technical recommendations for improving site speed and user experience.
A review of the five most popular web performance and responsive design articles from 2014, discussing speed, myths, and metrics.
Explores different metrics for web performance budgets, comparing milestone timings, SpeedIndex, quantity-based, and rule-based approaches.
Introduces grunt-perfbudget, a Grunt.js plugin that enforces web performance budgets using WebPageTest metrics.
The article argues that web performance is a cultural, not just technical, problem and requires a holistic approach throughout development.
Explains how Bayesian A/B testing improves online headline optimization, overcoming challenges of traditional frequentist methods for faster, more accurate results.
A deep dive into HTML5 fundamentals, browser parsing rules, and how understanding them can lead to more maintainable markup.
An overview of Google's Page Speed tool, detailing its performance auditing rules and advanced features for web optimization.
