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6 years later
I can’t believe 6 years have passed. I remember writing those posts below, still being on a temporary work permit in Canada, wishing to work for a bigger media company while learning lots during my...
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Why bashing Facebook’s HTML5 hybrid app is mean and doesn’t make sense
Whaaaaat? Another one of those “Facebook’s native app is faster” posts – No! You won’t hear this from me. After I had heard from posts/people that FB would be changing their core mobile architecture...
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Building and designing energy-efficient mobile websites
I was introduced to an excellent paper at the Future Insights Live in Las Vegas this year during a talk I attended and really liked by @glan. The paper is called “Who Killed My Battery: Analyzing...
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Web Performance & Responsive Web Design: Disconnected or Compliant?
We’ve all been there: people throwing around the word Responsive Web Design (RWD) in web project meetings, stakeholders can’t stop talking about it, and even the non-technical Project Manager might...
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Advanced Web Performance Techniques – Part 1
Happy New Year, Everyone! Web performance is something dear to my heart and is something that can make me browse the web for hours. My favorite holiday treat is @perfplanet‘s performance calender,...
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Applying weight loss paradigms to web performance – the page weight points...
I like to compare web performance and page weight challenges to real world scenarios. I continue to enjoy John Allspaw and Steve Souders’ performance about a stronger and faster web at the Velocity...
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My contribution as a female tech speaker – Living the minority
I love talking about, and listening to the things I am passionate about (who doesn’t?). I love sharing my knowledge and learning about others. I love conferences. It’s a great place to learn new...
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Setup 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...
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“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...
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Simulating 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...
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Performance 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....
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Warming 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...
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The 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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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):...
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I’m extremely delighted to let you know that I’ve started to write my very first own book. The book is called “Lean Websites” and focuses on front-end web performance. “Lean Websites” will help you...
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Fast-Forward Performance – The Future Looks Bright
Note: This is a cross-post, the original post can be found as part of the 2014 perf calendar. Generally, I prefer to mention the bad news first: Slow websites will always exist. Websites will...
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Good-Bye OANDA / Hello Mozilla!
I gave notice last week. This was the hardest resignation day I’ve ever had to go through. Not only because I noticed that people care about me and my work but more importantly to leave something so...
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