The CBC serves optimized content to millions of Canadians. We’ll share our experience & knowledge of optimizing content delivery for a high-scale & unpredictable audience. We will explain our performance stack from server-side optimization tricks to automated performance tools during deployment. We will discuss our challenges, findings and learnings of continually improving site delivery.

CBC’s approach to Web Performance
- General Tools and Tricks used to optimize where possible
- Server-side Optimization
- Automated and non-automated optimization tools and best practices on deployment, our performance stack
- Real device testing using tools like Adobe Shadow

Our findings/results:
- There is always room for improvement
- Examples how we’ve improved performance

Conclusion
-A good combination of all: RESS, Mobile First and Responsive Design
-Caching is a good thing and NOT a bad thing, don’t cache bust!
-Automated performance tools during deployment