title	conference	date
How Fast is Fast Enough?	performance.now() 2025	2025-10-30
Shows concrete tests and numbers: A multivariate throttling experiment produces fewer conversions and a throttled cohort returns less even after speed… Talk on
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024	performance.now() 2024	2024-11-14
Sets current numbers and tools against real failures: global device split and browser reach (Chrome ~66% Safari ~18%), median page growth and resource hotspots… Talk on
Creating Performance Impact in a Changing Tech Landscape	performance.now() 2023	2023-11-02
Argues for concrete moves: identify the critical rendering path and focus on pages that drive revenue, lean on synthetic + RUM (WebPageTest, SpeedCurve) and… Talk on
The Psychology of Web Performance	beyond tellerrand Berlin 2023	2023-09-11
Argues that front end accounts for 80–90% of end‑user response time and backs it with lab and field work using EEG headsets, facial‑action coding and real‑user… Talk on
Revisiting Performance Budgets	performance.now() 2022	2022-10-27
A practical playbook that shifts performance budgets from aspirational goals to regression detectors: use RUM and synthetic side-by-side, set thresholds to the… Talk on
An Opinionated Guide to Web Performance Budgets	All Day Hey! Live 2021	2021-05-07
Explains how to build pragmatic budgets using both synthetic lab tests and RUM, with RUM tracked at the 75th percentile and synthetic used for diagnostics… Talk on
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Performance Teams	performance.now() 2019	2019-11-21
Company interviews plus case studies claim that performance culture drives measurable business wins: Shopzilla cuts load to 1.2s and sees ~12% conversion lift… Talk on
How I learned to stop worrying and love UX metrics	performance.now() 2018	2018-11-08
Argues there is no single “unicorn” metric and demonstrates concrete options, using SpeedCurve, WebPageTest, synthetic and RUM data, Lighthouse and custom… Talk on
The Small Things That Add Up: How to Find What Design Factors Influence Conversion Rates	Smashing Conference Freiburg 2018	2018-09-10
How do you know what consumers expect from your site? Every shopper is different and every shopping visit is different. Industry stats tell only part of the… Talk on
Hunting the Unicorn	DeltaV Conference 2018	2018-05-10
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… Talk on
Performance is about people, not metrics	Velocity 2017	2017-06-19
Survey of UX studies ties small delays to big human effects: Google‑linked research shows 100 ms matters for perception; lab work with EEG headsets finds users… Talk on
Tammy Everts (SOASTA)	Velocity 2016 Santa Clara	2016-06-20
Collaboration with Google feeds 1.1 million sessions of real RUM data (stored in perpetuity by the vendor) into machine learning that examines 93 attributes… Talk on
Interview with	Velocity Conference New York 2015	2015-09-28
Performance measurement centers on a concrete metric: the Consumer Performance Index at consumerperformanceindex.com which combines synthetic and Pulse… Interview on
Mobile Web Performance and User Experience	Velocity Europe Conference 2013	2013-11-13
Radware user research tests ecommerce and travel sites with users wearing physiological and eye‑tracking gear and finds concrete effects: 55% of online retail… Interview on
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