Like many frontend developers, Sergey Chernyshev was inspired in the late 2000 by Steve Souders to contribute to and grow the web performance community. Not only did he launch the Meed4SPEEDs as part of the New York Web Performance Meetup. He also worked for meetup.com helping them to improve web performance and user experience. Over the past years Sergey contributed to many projects such as WebPageTest.org, UX Capture Library, Jamstack and more.

Tune in to this episode, learn what has and what hasn’t changed in the quest for better user experience. Get a quick start on Core Web Vitals and current challenges. Most important: get inspired to contribute back to this community.

Llinks we discussed during the podcast are here:

Sergy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeychernyshev/
Steve Souders Page: https://stevesouders.com/
NY Web Performance Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/
WebPageTest: https://www.webpagetest.org/
Github UX Capture: https://github.com/ux-capture/ux-capture
Jamstack: https://jamstack.org/
WebVitals: https://web.dev/vitals/
CrUX: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-user-experience-report
Edge Compute:
CloudFlare Workers: https://workers.cloudflare.com/
Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/products/edge-compute/serverless
PWA Stats: https://www.pwastats.com/
Next.JS approach to SSR: https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/pages

State of Web Performance Optimization in 2021 with Sergey Chernyshev