10+ Best Articles on Webperf
The most useful articles and videos on webperf from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Webperf Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on webperf by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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Product page performance problems
In this episode of SEO Fairy Tales, Martin Splitt and Ruth Mesfun, a software engineer at Zillow, share a case study about mobile users dropping off of produ...
Accessibility: the land that time to interactive forgot
We tend to think of performance in terms of latency, code optimization, and things like the critical rendering path, but what happens when the browser create...
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on webperf—all under 10 minutes.
Learn Images
This course is created for beginner and advanced web developers alike, covering everything from the basics of ensuring image sources are efficiently requested and rendered, to the details of how…
Interop 2023: continuing to improve the web for developers
Again in 2023, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, work together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues.In 2023, all major browser vendors and other stakeholders are again…
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023
To serve users at the global P75 of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight upgrade on last year's budgets, thanks…
From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders that improving the performance of your project is actually worth the investment?…
JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome
How browsers schedule and execute scripts can impact the performance of web pages. While techniques like <script defer>, <link rel=preload> (and ...
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on webperf.
Our top Core Web Vitals recommendations for 2023
A collection of the best practices that the Chrome DevRel team believes are the most effective ways to improve Core Web Vitals performance in 2023.Over the years, we at Google have made a lot of…
The Emerging Paradigms for Delivering Web Content Faster
Caching static and dynamic content — CDNs and Edge Computing
Performance | 2022
Performance chapter of the 2022 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals, with deep dives into the Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and First Input Delay metrics and their diagnostics.
Lazy-loading LCP images: Why does this anti-pattern happen?
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a performance metric representing the user experience's loading facet. It's part of the Core Web Vitals program and measures the render time of the largest image or…
Frank DENIS random thoughts.
Using libsodium in a web browser has been possible since 2013, thanks to the excellent Emscripten project. Since then, WebAssembly was introduced. A more efficient way to run code not originally…
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Webperf, including:
Chrome Developers
News & guidance for developers from the Google Chrome Developer Relations team.
CSS-Tricks
The official account for http://CSS-Tricks.com, a web design community powered by @DigitalOcean.
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