Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. But over time, something went very wrong.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A social network without notifications? Keeping one website from abusing permissions or improperly accessing data from another website is what browsers do. Browser makers have become masters of origin separation because they run totally untrusted code from all over the internet. Removal of one would be a crisis.

Storage 100

Storage Engineering Games Design 100