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