March 13-15, 2019
Montreal, Canada

Hacking Web Performance

Web performance is a must known skill for every developer. In this workshop we will cover the basics of Web Performance Optimization, how to measure performance on desktop and mobile devices, what are the important differences on mobile browsers and practical tips to follow to achieve extreme web performance and improve your conversion with the latest tips and tricks to hack the metrics and achieve the best results.

We will have time to make a real live analysis on websites and understand how to separate Above-the-Fold content from the rest and when to do it.
Attendees will understand new concepts, such as Speed Index, the current goals and new user-centric metrics, and the tools to profile, measure, analyze and improve websites' performance.
  • Basics of Web Performance
  • Metrics and Goals
  • Tools to measure
  • Creating Reports
  • Live Analysis of Web sites and apps
  • Server Configuration
  • Basic Tips and Tricks
  • HTTP/2 push antipatterns
  • Replacing PNGs, JPEGs, and animated GIFs
  • HTTP client hints
  • Better compression encoding algorithms
  • The browser’s new prefetching and lazy-loading abilities
  • Extreme Performance techniques

Maximiliano Firtman

Max Firtman (@firt) is a mobile + web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer. He has authored many books, including Programming the Mobile Web and High Performance Mobile Web published by O’Reilly Media, and many online courses at Lynda, LinkedIn Learning, Safari, Udemy and more publishers. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and he has been widely recognized for his work in the mobile-web community. He teaches mobile, HTML5, PWA and web performance trainings for top companies aro

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