Episode 018 - Shotgunning websites: web performance

Users are extremely sensitive to web performance. The slightest change in a website’s load time can impact a user staying or going. In this episode we talk about ways to help improve web performance and why it’s so important.

Items mentioned in the episode:
Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales, Page speed correlates to business metrics at Walmart.com, For Google, 400ms of increased page load time, results in 0,44% lost search sessions, The Social Network, Large DDoS attacks cause outages at Twitter, Spotify, and other sites, Google Page Rank, AMP, 2G Tuesdays, Gzip, Wordpress, Forward JS, WebPageTest, PageSpeed, Gulp, Grunt, npm, Broccoli, Glimmer, GWT, React, Ember, Angular, Debugging Node.js in Production

Panelists:
Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan
Augustus Yuan - @augburto
Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers
Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:
Ryan Burgess - Caplansky's Deli
Ryan Burgess - React Perf Tool
Augustus Yuan - FlameGraph
Augustus Yuan - Real-time performance audit with Chrome DevTools
Derrick Showers - Week of learning
Derrick Showers - Black Mirror
Derrick Showers - Man In The High Castle
Sarah Federman - Bridge Troll
Sarah Federman - Imgix Page Weight Tool
Sarah Federman - CSS Triggers

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