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> It also seems to be a metric that is very easily gamed. Fun fact: the current JS-specific metric (which is being fazed out) is First Input Delay, and it was explicitly designed t…

Isn’t that tweet talking about 2.4s for Largest Contentful Paint? It mentions 0.9 for FCP being fast, which I agree is pretty reasonable.

This is correct (source: working in web perf for 5 years). INP is the time between you click/press a key/etc and the moment the next paint happens. It’s only measured for on-page i…

Bun’s blog post doesn’t explicitly mention Deno’s “CommonJS is hurting JavaScript” post, but it feels like a response to that. Deno discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Relevant thread, for those who’re curious: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

Not really. AFAIK (correct me if I’m wrong!) first-party and third-party codecs in media players are kinda equal: you load a file, and the media player picks which codec to delegat…

Hey HackerNews! This fall, I was lucky to help Causal (a web spreadsheet for forecasting) with speeding up their frontend app. Here are some of my favorite findings: - Turns out wh…

Modern Yarn supports `yarn patch`: https://yarnpkg.com/cli/patch . For Yarn 1.x and npm, I’ve used https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package which also works well.

(Co)author here - happy to answer any questions :) - This was a v fun (and challenging, due to Causal's scale!) project to do - Most optimizations we’ve implemented were (very effe…

Hey Hacker News! I’m a long-time user of Notion (an advanced note-taking app). Notion’s web app has been quite slow for me, so I decided to reverse-engineer it and see why. Here’s …

So, a couple months ago, I discovered a way to make a text that uses Google Fonts render faster. In slow connections, that might give a boost of 1-3 seconds. Recently, I released t…

So, a few weeks ago, I discovered a way to make a text that uses Google Fonts render faster. In slow connections, that might give a boost of 1-3 seconds. Some backstory: * When you…

Hey, I’m the author or the article. Kudos for the great work, really like the new site!

So, in summer, I gave an introductory talk into web performance. This is its textual version :) The talk includes 94 slides with text about: — why web performance matters — how to …