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. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). This month, SpeedCurve enters double digits with our tenth birthday.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

One available proxy is the distribution of use from Google's hosted JS libraries. That is unlikely given the need for SRI annotations or the unbecoming practice of speeding up high-traffic sites, but not others. One challenge for fair inclusion is the tension between site-count-weighting and traffic-weighting.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course. Large preview ). Bundle Buddy.

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