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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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PerformanceObserver and Paint Timing API

Jos

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Yet those metrics don’t tell us the whole picture about the rendering experience.

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PerformanceObserver and Paint Timing API

Jos

In a recent post about Chrome 60 Beta , Google announced the support of the Paint Timing API to get metrics on when your page starts rendering and when the user gets content that can be consumed (more info on the definition of the events below). Yet those metrics don’t tell us the whole picture about the rendering experience.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Notes on: Married to HTTP/3

Tim Kadlec

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. Google Search with QUIC: p90 went down 6% on desktop, 5% on mobile. At #SmashingConf San Francisco , Robin Marx gave a presentation about HTTP/3. Here are my notes. What and Why?

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. Make sure you're tracking the right metrics There are a lot of performance metrics out there!

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Performance ROI: Tracking and Quantifying Customer Wins

Rigor

At Rigor we help our customers deliver performance wins, quantify those successes, and correlate the impact to the business metrics they care about the most. Our team reworked their tests to monitor the flows identified as most critical in Google Analytics. Snapshot of DJS’ performance metrics when we first established their baseline.