20: Web Performance - Feel the Need for Speed

Development Best Practices

In this episode we welcome back Robert Boedigheimer, Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author and MDC Speaker to talk about web performance. Robert talks through his surprising answer to the biggest problems in quickly loading web pages, how FAST to load a web page, and some ways to benchmark web pages. We conclude with a discussion of HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2.0.
2:00 Best Practices - Negotiating with silence
4:45 The biggest problems in quickly loading web pages
6:55 When to load 3rd party content
7:55 What IS a "fast" web page?
9:35 Best tools to benchmark web pages
12:40 HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2
HTTP Archive: https://httparchive.org/, https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/ten-years-page-bloat/
Core Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/
Lighthouse Speed Index: https://web.dev/speed-index/
RUM vendors : https://www.dynatrace.com/, https://www.speedcurve.com/
Pagespeed Insights: https://pagespeed.web.dev/
Page Speed Benchmarks: https://app.speedcurve.com/benchmarks/usa/retail/slow/speedindex/
WebPageTest: https://www.webpagetest.org/
Fiddler: https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2: https://www.httpvshttps.com/
Find Robert at @boedie on Twitter.
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