#stevesouders (6 links)
In his High Performance Mobile presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam, Netherlands Steve Souders discussed the importance of performance on the Web, why it is even more important on mobile, and a set of emerging best practices for faster mobile Web site.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Render first. JS second. stevesouders.com
Rendering first and executing JavaScript second is the key to a faster Web.
- High Performance Web Sites :: WebPagetest.org and Page Speed stevesouders.com
One area where WPO needs more standardization is performance analysis. There are numerous performance analysis tools available, including Page Speed, YSlow, AOL Pagetest, MSFast, VRTA, and neXpert. There’s some commonality across these tools, but the differences are what’s noticeable. To get a thorough performance scrubbing, web developers have no choice but to run multiple tools and sift through the different results trying to find the most important recommendations. It would be better for developers to have a more standard way of analyzing performance across environments. The Page Speed SDK provides a path to achieve this.
- High Performance Web Sites :: WPO – Web Performance Optimization stevesouders.com
This convergence of awareness, even urgency, on the business side and growing expertise in the tech community around web performance marks the beginning of a new industry that I’m calling “WPO” – Web Performance Optimization.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Google Analytics goes async stevesouders.com
It’s extremely cool to see this pattern being evangelized for such a major piece of the Internet.
- Website performance Q&A with Steve Souders from Google | Royal Pingdom royal.pingdom.com
Statistics from Amazon, Google, Jupiter Research and others show that a faster web site increases traffic, repeat visits, clicks, and conversions. There are two other motivations, in addition to these user metrics, that I give for always working to improve the speed of your web site. First, even if your site is fast enough for some users, there are always other users with slower connections. Mediocre performance in the U.S. means an unbearable experience in other parts of the world. If you hope to attract and retain a global audience, your site has to be blazingly fast under normal conditions so that under degraded conditions it’s still usable.