Web Performance & Optimization

2013-03-16 00:00:00 2013-03-17 00:00:00 America/Toronto Web Performance & Optimization Next up in FITC’s Spotlight event series, we bring you a day dedicated to Web Performance & Optimization. We’ve lined-up six top developers to go through the key things you need to know to to optimize a user’s viewing experience. A part of the Spotlight… Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation


Overview

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