DeltaV Conference 2018
as the organisers put it
DeltaV is proud to be supporting the following good causes as part of the conference. A financial contribution will be made to support the fantastic work codebar, Code Club and CodeYourFuture are doing in the tech community.
who it's for
frontend engineers, web performance engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, product managers, UX designers, mobile web developers
topics
Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX); service worker offline caching; Web App Manifest installation; progressive web app build workflow; performance regression testing frameworks; real-user monitoring and RUM metrics; WebPageTest synthetic analysis; QUIC protocol in practice; third-party script management and integrity; server-side rendering performance benefits; responsive images with srcset and picture
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Redefining Web Performance | Tim Kadlec | 33m |
Argues that web performance is a cultural problem not just a metric and gives concrete evidence: median page weight 1.5 MB, 90th percentile 5,754 KB… | ||
| Starting a Dedicated Web Performance Team the First Ten Months | Sarah Dapul-Weberman | 26m |
Pinterest launches a three‑person web performance team and within ten months builds a regression framework that catches commits before production, a deployable… | ||
| Speeding up Without Slowing down | Rhys Evans | 29m |
FT.com is one of the world’s fastest news sites and deploys to production every ten minutes, but that speed comes from concrete choices and trade-offs: a… | ||
| This is for Everyone | Seren Davies, Bruce Lawson | 30m |
Argument: design for real constraints not vague ideals. Claims include concrete wins: Flipkart Lite: 40% more returning visitors 63% higher conversions from… | ||
| Chrome User Experience Report | Inian Parameshwaran | 27m |
Dataset covers about 3.8 million sites and exposes real-user metrics like first contentful paint (FCP) via BigQuery; analysis uses a composite site experience… | ||
| Web Performance @ NBrown It's a Business Affair | Nick Webb, Laura Sheridan | 21m |
Nbrown proves a direct correlation between page load time and conversion by running a what-if analysis that within 24 hours shows load increases raise bounce… | ||
| Let's Build a Progressive Web App | uve | 17m |
Builds a PWA live from a simple responsive site using glitch.com, audits with Lighthouse (score starts 27 then rises to 45), and generates a manifest and icons… | ||
| Frontend Resilience | Ian Feather | 33m |
BuzzFeed documents concrete fixes not theory: measure real failure rates like ~1% of JS requests timing out and 13 million monthly timeouts, and ~9% users with… | ||
| A Rube Goldberg Machine and New Web Technology | Ada Rose Cannon | 29m |
A working Rube Goldberg page assembles CSS Grid, Web Animations API and Web Components with Custom CSS Properties driving timing and layout. Async/await waits… | ||
| Debugger; for Developers | Denys Mishunov | 38m |
Title promises psychology not code and delivers specific claims and remedies: perfectionist paralysis (Steve Jobs dithers over 2,000 beige shades; Henry Ford… | ||
| Hunting the Unicorn | Tammy Everts | 36m |
Argues that classic metrics like page load time and time to first paint fail to predict user experience and shows tools and evidence instead: WebPageTest and… | ||
| Any Site can be a Progressive Web App | Jeremy Keith | 10m |
Claim: any website benefits from HTTPS + Service Worker + Web App Manifest; those three measurable ingredients make a PWA. Tools like Lighthouse, Sonar and PWA… | ||
| Fast Fashion - How Missguided Revolutionised their Approach to Site Performance | Mark Leach, Andy Davies | 30m |
Missguided starts performance work summer 2017, forms a dedicated team, and measures with WebPageTest on a Motorola G2 and RUM to tie load times to revenue… | ||
| How To Manage Performance Like a Product | Lauren Younger Nagel | 24m |
Argues that teams should manage performance like a product by turning RUM and synthetic monitoring plus customer surveys into measurable goals, a business… | ||
| Improving Load Time for 100 Million Websites - Wix Case-Study | Dan Shappir | 30m |
Wix hosts over 100 million sites and reports concrete wins: server-side rendering cuts time to first contentful paint up to ~70% on mobile and ~40% on desktop… | ||
| QUIC, in Theory and Practice | Robin Marx | 30m |
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP while shipping TLS 1.3 and bringing HTTP/2’s multiplexing down a layer to remove TCP head‑of‑line blocking; Google reports QUIC… | ||
| There's more to Performance than meets the Eye | Léonie Watson | 27m |
Shows measurable effects: screen readers rely on the browser’s accessibility tree, and Chrome mitigates latency by caching that tree into the application… | ||
| It’s My (Third) Party and I'll Cry If I Want To | Harry Roberts | 31m |
Shows concrete audits and fixes: uses requestmap.webperf.tools plus WebPageTest and the WebPageTest block feature to compare before/after, probes origins with… | ||
| Where are the Women? | Dora Militaru | 26m |
An argument that mixes moral and business cases with concrete data: the Financial Times reports 36% board representation and a pledge to reach parity by 2022… | ||
| 25% Faster Hotel Search. Web Performance? - Trivago. | Tobias Baldauf | 31m |
Trivago measures impact with a server side multivariate tester called the release controller and ties changes to business KPIs rather than vague speed claims… | ||
| The Shape of the Web | Henri Helvetica | 30m |
Mosaic becomes the pivot point with 65 million new users in 18 months and the web grows to about four billion people while browsing moves to low‑end phones and… | ||
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