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Follow-up on BDConf talk “Embracing Performance in Today’s Multi-Platform...
Hello everyone, this is a follow-up blog post on my talk “Embracing Performance in Today’s Multi-Platform Macrocosm” at the Breaking Development conference in San Diego. If you landed here because...
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“Grunt” your way to frontend performance optimization
Performance optimization has been more than ever in the spotlight of web developers, especially for mobile web developers who have to understand and know by heart the challenges and constraints of...
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The Answer to Your Mobile Strategy and Performance Could Simply be…ESI
ESI stands for Edge Side Include and is an XML-based markup language. ESI support is offered by content delivery network (CDN) vendors like Akamai and F5 and also now Varnish (but only a very limited...
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Follow-up 3rd party footprint
The following post outlines the links, tools and articles I mentioned in my 3rd party footprint talk Main Slides Slides Shared Links and Articles Third-Party JavaScript (Ben Vinegar):...
View ArticleSetup your own HTTP Archive to track and query your site trends
Be honest, ever wanted to play “Steve Souders” for a day and pull some cool stats or trends about some web sites of your choice? Well, how about setting up your own HTTP Archive then? Httparchive.org...
View Article“One Web” in a Multi-Platform World – Contradiction or Challenge, You Choose!
I read “mobile is not different” and I childishly take it personal – Why? – I dig deeper as if I was my own therapist – Why does it affect me the way it does – It feels like hopeful idealism and the...
View ArticleSimulating Frontend SPOF – The day a tiny 3rd party script almost slowed down...
How realistic is it really that a script that you didn’t even write could dramatically slow down your site and other major sites as well? Keep reading….scripts can slow down sites and it hurts to...
View ArticlePerformance check: CBC’s logo as pure CSS, Data URI and simple PNG on the scale
There is always room for improvement. Period. Think about the 100 meter men’s sprint. I am amazed how it continues to be possible for human beings to still become faster and improve their performance....
View ArticleWarming up for Velocity 2013 in Santa Clara
I have attended several conferences in the last few years. The first one that really changed my “developer life” was the Velocity 2011 conference in Santa Clara. I have always been interested in...
View ArticleThe Power of a Private HTTP Archive Instance: Finding a Representative...
(Note: cross-posted at programming.oreilly.com) Be honest, have you ever wanted to play Steve Souders for a day and pull some revealing stats or trends about some web sites of your choice? Or maybe dig...
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