Ben Schwarz
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
no series more than once — all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Stefan Judis23 talks
- Bruce Lawson30 talks
- Tim Kadlec12 talks
- Steve Souders26 talks
- Henri Helvetica18 talks
- Ilya Grigorik18 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Performance for the long haul | NG-DE Conference 2019 | 2019-08-30 |
JavaScript dominates real-world slowdowns: pause-and-compile plus runtime cost means a 2.36 MB gzipped bundle can expand to ~11.5 MB uncompressed, multiplying… | ||
| The Critical Request: An investigation into what blocks render | DinosaurJS 2018 | 2018-06-21 |
Study measures how browser chooses and fetches assets and shows web fonts often block first meaningful paint by about three to five seconds on slow networks… | ||
| Beyond the bubble | Nordic.js 2017 | 2017-09-07 |
Less than half the world has Internet access—about 53% offline—and India adds ~108 million new users a year, so optimize for slow, cheap devices like the Moto… | ||
| Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble | ColdFront 2017 | 2017-09-05 |
Global connectivity stats are concrete: 43% of people have internet, India added ~100 million new users in 2016, the global average download speed is ~7.2 MB/s… | ||
| Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble | JSConf EU 2017 | 2017-05-06 |
Global connectivity stats land hard: 43% of humans online, 57% offline and India added ~100 million new users in 2016. Real-world speeds and costs matter —… | ||
| Vanity performance metrics are worthless | RuhrJS 2016 | 2016-07-02 |
Claims live or die on specifics: shows undocumented Chrome devtool APIs, proves measuring visual completeness (speed index) and timed user interactions gives… | ||
| RuhrJS 2016 - Ben Schwarz | RuhrJS 2016 | 2016-07-02 |
A dashboard that actually plots week‑long battery curves from real field sensors and shows night/day bands, emoji weather overlays and midnight gridlines… | ||
| Real metrics for front-end performance | CSSConf Oakland 2014 | 2014-12-09 |
Shows concrete wins and measurements: Amazon finds 100 ms equals ~1% revenue, Etsy adds 160 KB and sees +12% mobile bounce, and average response size grows… | ||
| What are we doing, anyway? | CSSConf.Asia 2014 | 2014-11-19 |
A string of small experiments becomes measurable outcomes: a thrown‑together bookmarklet sparks Paul Irish attention and bookmarklet turned into W3C styles… | ||
| CSS Variables | Web Directions Code 2014 | 2014-05-01 |
Argues that native CSS variables can replace parts of preprocessors, simplify tool chains and make components truly themeable, showing that Bootstrap’s… | ||
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