Shows
The Path to PerformanceEpisode 08 with Sophie Shepherd of UshahidiThis week, we have a brief discussion about how third party ad networks affect performance on news sites before talking with Sophie Shepherd. Sophie is a Senior Designer at Ushahidi, a non-profit software company that develops free and open-source products for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping.
We discussed the challenges of designing for international users with minimal data speed, how Ushahidi brings data and information to regions with nearly no connection, designing with task completion in mind, and more.
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Sophie Shepherd
Follow Sophie on Twitter
Ushahidi
Lara Hogan - A List...
2015-08-1700 min
The Path to PerformanceEpisode 03 with Jeff LembeckThis week, Katie and Tim talk to Jeff Lembeck of the Filament Group about how they conduct performance analysis, how they sell performance, why everyone needs a "Jank Tank", and the importance of perceived performance.
Our sponsor this week is SpeedCurve. SpeedCurve is built on top of the WebPageTest API and allows you to get continuous feedback on how your front-end code affects a user’s web experience
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Udacity: Browser Rendering Optimization
State of the Union for ecommerce page speed from Radware
Web Performance Today
More Weight Doesn't Mean More Wa...
2015-05-0500 min
The Path to PerformanceEpisode 02 with Mark DorisonThis week, Tim talks about performance budgets, and shares how he sets up a performance budget for the sites he works on.
We also speak with Mark Dorrison about how he focuses on performance at a technical level, how to talk performance with your clients, how to sell performance to clients that aren't familiar with how important it really is, how they test performance at Chromatic, and more.
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Chromatic
Chromatic on Twitter
Mark Dorison on Twitter
Web Performance Slack Group
Paul Irish's comment on "Fast Enough"
Performance Budget Metrics
Andy...
2015-04-2200 min
The Path to PerformanceEpisode 01 with Lara HoganWelcome to the Path to Performance, a podcast for everyone dedicated to making websites faster.
In this episode, we discuss Tim's latest project, What Does My Site Cost, HTTP2, and a new site for performance audits (perfaudits.com).
For our interview this week, we're joined by Lara Hogan. Lara is the Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance.
She shares how she uses video to show website performance, how she motivates her Etsy team to care about performance, how to get your clients excited about performance...
2015-04-0700 min