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The Alignment Problem Is Not New

O'Reilly

Even once-idealistic internet companies have been unable to resist the master objective, and in pursuing it have created addictive products of their own, sown disinformation and division, and resisted attempts to restrain their behavior. Governance is not a “once and done” exercise.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

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 … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009.

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Speed Curve

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. IE8 was the first browser to have a preloader in 2009. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

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 …. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements.

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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. He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Here is our (ever-growing!) Presented here alphabetically by last name: Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. Performance matters.