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WebBundles – JS Delivery Without the Tradeoffs

Delivering Javascript has inherent tradeoffs - large bundles result in better compression and lower processing overhead, but compromise caching granularity and execution parallelism. Wouldn't it be great if we wouldn't…

How to read a WebPageTest waterfall chart

WebPageTest (WPT) is the goto tool when it comes to analysing, and ultimately fixing web performance problems with a website. Much of the power of WPT comes from its waterfall…

DeltaV Conference

The QEII Centre

For more information for DeltaV please visit https://deltavconf.com

Show your team what’s possible when it comes to web performance.

  • Identify quick wins – Discover practical first steps and tools to help you rapidly improve your front-end load times
  • Measure the impact – Learn to measure, benchmark and convert… and smash your revenue targets.
  • Persuade your business to take action – Hear from the experts how to make the case for improvement with real world case studies

Our speakers will cover a range of web performance topics over the two-day conference.

  • Technical deep dives on PWA, Third Party tags, Chrome UX Report, QUIC and more.
  • Practical advice about building a web performance team, measurement, and how to convince your company to care about performance.
  • In-depth case studies from Trivago, Wix, JD Williams, Missguided and more!

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Andrew Betts (Clearing User Cache) and Hooman Beheshti (Revisiting HTTP/2)

The Financial Times

This month we have Andrew Betts who will be telling us all about clearing you users cache and Hooman Beheshti who will be revisiting HTTP/2.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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Optimising the Web – A Front End Talk

The Financial Times

This month we have Sanjay Purswani of Compare The Market who will tell us about understanding the various stages of how the browser builds the DOM, how to optimise HTML, CSS and JS, how networking plays a part and what AMP and PWAs add to the performance landscape.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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Panel discussion between QUIC and HTTP standards participants, including Q&A

Spektrix

The IETF are in town from 17-23 March https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/101/ so not to miss an opportunity we have arranged a special meetup for everyone who would like to know more on QUIC and HTTP protocols and where they are heading in the future. Mark Nottingham will be leading  a panel discussion between QUIC and HTTP standards participants, including Q&A.

For a little more on QUIC see https://quicwg.github.io/

The panel will start at 19:30

Note : this event will not be livestreamed or recorded.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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The butterfly effect and tech / A-B Testing, Ads and other 3rd Party Tags

The Financial Times

This month we have two great talks. Firstly we have a talk from Arianna Aondio, Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, who will talk about “The butterfly effect and tech” and how the only certainty we face in tech is uncertainty. She will look at how agility, flexibility, and openness can help us get a certain sense of control and thereby cope with that uncertainty.  To follow Arianna we will have Andy Davies who will give those of you that did not attend the recent SmashingConf to hear his talk “A/B Testing, Ads and other 3rd Party Tags” where will will take another look at one of our favourite web performance subjects.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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Large Scale DDoS / Variable Fonts / Chrome Timeline

The Financial Times

This month we have three great talks. Firstly we have a talk from Michael Tremante from Cloudflare who will tell us about “Large Scale DDoS Mitigation”.  Then we have  a lightning talk from Oliver Williams of Springer Nature titled “One file, many possibilities: Variable fonts on the web”. Finally we have Joel Webber of Fullstory with a talk “Beyond Load Times: Performance Analysis for Modern Web Apps” that focuses on the Chrome performance timeline.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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Who’s afraid of Webpack? / 3rd Party Content: the weak link in the chain

The Financial Times

To kick off the new year we have two talks. Firstly we have another talk from Dora Militaru. Having submitted two lightning talks for December, and going down a storm with her session “Where are the women?”, Dora has been asked back to present the other one titled “Who’s afraid of Webpack?”.  Then we have Simon Hearne with his talk “Third-party content: the weak link in the chain” where he’ll explores some of the toughest questions in web performance, backed up with huge amounts of data.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish Software.

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Christmas 2017 Lightning Talks & Quiz

The Financial Times

As usual our end of year meetup will be raising funds for BBC Children in Need and Crisis at Christmas. All ticket net revenue from the event will be donated plus we’ll try and round that up from group funds. Please give as generously as you can.

In terms of content there will be a collection of lighnting talks on subjects ranging from AI to Retro Computing with a few web perf ones thrown in for good measure, followed by our now infamous quiz with some tasty prizes – that’s right, the prize will be whatever pizza is left over at the end of the evening.

Beer & Pizzas will be provided due to the generosity of our Group Sponsors : Akamai, Apica, Cedexis, Google Developers, Distil Networks, Fastly, The Financial Times, NCC Group, New Relic, NS1 and Varnish.

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