Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple bars web apps from the only App Store allowed on iOS. [1]. Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. Three facts. This is a bold assertion, and proving it requires overwhelming evidence.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. This is where we started. We had to fix that. That’s Where We Were.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Vitaly Friedman. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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