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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Web Performance In Action. Designing for Performance.

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Performance Toolbelt: Page Speed

Tim Kadlec

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. that Google has documented. What Does It Test. Minimize DNS lookups.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

IE8 was the first browser to have a preloader in 2009. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.) Total CPU time for each script is shown in parentheses after the URL.). The preloader is the most important performance improvement browsers ever made. switched from sync to async.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

In 2009 at Velocity–the annual performance optimization conference–there was a flurry of information released by companies that clearly demonstrated how performance effects key business objectives. Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. 21% less searches.