Spotlight: Web Performance

2019-03-23 00:00:00 2019-03-24 00:00:00 America/Toronto Spotlight: Web Performance Web performance has come a long way. From how we once defined what web performance was, to the actual tools that we also once used to make said measurements. But this dark art has moved into the spotlight, as the near ubiquitous use of frameworks,… Toronto FITC Toronto

Talks

Getting the Most Out of WebPageTest
Patrick will walk through using WebPageTest for performance analysis. The session will do a quick overview on basic usage and then dive deep into more advanced capabilities and features. He… Read more…
DevOps Intermediate Performance
Patrick Meenan
Facebook
High Performance PWAs
PWAs are a newly emerging delivery format for web, desktop apps. The fact that they can be installed on a client device and behave like natively installed apps means that… Read more…
Front-End Intermediate Web Dev
Hasan Ahmad
Aquent DEV6
Hyper-Lightweight Websites
The average website loads over 1.5MBs of content per page, making over 75 requests. Many popular websites are serving over 5MBs just to load their homepages. And these numbers represent… Read more…
Front-End Performance Web Dev
Chris Zacharias
imgix
It’s My (Third) Party, and I’ll Cry if I Want To
Like it or not, a huge part of modern web development involves the use of third-party providers: fonts, analytics, ads, tracking, and more all have an impact of performance, and… Read more…
Intermediate Performance Work Better
Harry Roberts
CSS Wizardry Ltd.
Making Modern Web Performance Accessible
Performance is critical. Yet it often feels like developers are forced to choose between powerful JavaScript frameworks with significant performance drawbacks or high-performance apps that require a huge amount of… Read more…
JavaScript Open Source Performance
Amberley Romo
Gatsby
Measuring the Speed of the Web with the Chrome UX Report and HTTP Archive
Web performance is usually looked at one page at a time when we’re trying to measure and optimize our own individual websites. But how do we know how the web… Read more…
Performance UX/UI Web Dev
Rick Viscomi
Google
Rise of the JAMstack
A new web stack has emerged. A stack powered by modern browsers, API economy and Git based workflows. A stack that is not tied to specific technologies. A stack that… Read more…
Front-End JavaScript Performance
Bhavana Srinivas
Netlify