Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

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. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money. High Performance Websites.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

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.

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