Web Performance Stats are Overrated
Note: A more polite version of this post originally appeared on Instart Logic’s blog Who cares about performance? Your customers, that’s who! Speeding up your site by several seconds, or even by...
View ArticleSpeed Perception
TL;DR: Please take the speedPerception challenge to help us confirm results about which web performance metrics best match human perception of speed. Last summer, I was involved in a study called...
View ArticleW3C Performance Specifications
Here are some of the W3C’s web performance specifications: High Resolution Time (Level 3) The DOMHighResTimeStamp type, performance.now method, and performance.timeOrigin attributes of the Performance...
View ArticleWeb Performance: Video Optimization
According to HTTPArchive, sites went from an average of 2,135Kb to 3,034 KB in the two years from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2017. Videos are a major part of that. The average web sites video weight...
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