Key takeaways from Velocity Europe on web performance measurement, focusing on flawed KPIs, user perception, and the pitfalls of gaming metrics.
Explains how rotating carousels, ads, and popups distort web performance metrics like Speed Index and offers a technical fix using WebPageTest's activity timeout.
Explores the intersection of web performance and accessibility, focusing on how slow loading impacts users of assistive technologies like screen readers and keyboards.
The article critiques Google's AMP framework, arguing it restricts web development freedom, and proposes a standardized alternative for performance verification.
A presentation explaining the 'Speed Index' web performance metric, including a video and slides from a conference talk.
Explains how the experimental createImageBitmap API can move image decoding off the main thread to prevent jank and checkerboarding in web apps.
A consultant explains a method for prioritizing website speed improvements based on user impact and implementation difficulty.
Argues that all websites must begin with server-side rendered HTML for universal accessibility, even if they later use advanced JavaScript features.
The article discusses the AMP Project, an open-source framework for building fast mobile web pages, using a story about misaligned incentives as an analogy.
A technical case study on optimizing the loading performance of ruxit.com over three weeks without reducing page weight.
A technical analysis of the HTML5 audio element's preload attribute, its values, and their impact on browser download behavior.
Explores upcoming web performance technologies like HTTP/2, HTTPS, and the shift away from Flash, with a timeline for adoption.
Explains how to minify HTML in ASP.NET MVC to remove extra whitespace from Razor comments and code, saving bandwidth.
A guide on evaluating third-party scripts for web performance, security, and user experience, including a checklist of critical questions.
A developer explores creating a web performance heatmap to visualize when specific page elements render, building a proof-of-concept tool for analysis.
Facebook's Instant Articles highlights the web's performance problem, analyzing why speed is a critical feature and the trend of circumventing the web for speed.
A developer announces joining Akamai's developer relations team to focus on web performance research, experiments, and standards.
A deep dive into advanced web performance audits using Chrome DevTools, with case studies on major sites like CNET and Time.com.
A guide to identifying and analyzing third-party assets on websites using a custom tool, focusing on performance impact and management.
A concise guide to modern web performance optimization, outlining key technical recommendations for improving site speed and user experience.
