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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

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. The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices.