Measuring What’s Important
On 4th November 2015 at as part of Embrace The Network and Measuring What’s Important; hosted by Twitter
Until browsers add mind-reading event handlers, we have to search for an alternative way to measure how fast users think our sites are. For decades, the go-to number has been window.onload, but modern and responsive techniques have weakened the relevance of that metric. What are the metrics that do have meaning for what your users are experiencing?
Session video
Video from Responsive Field Day 2015
Presented by
Mark Zeman
Mark comes from a design background but has always been just as passionate about the code
Mark comes from a design background but has always been just as passionate about the code. He has spent 20 years crafting websites and mobile apps in a variety of roles, including running his own design studio, lecturing at New Zealand's best design school and leading teams to deliver some on New Zealand's largest websites as a creative director in a digital agency.
He is a prominent thought leader in the performance community and popular on the conference circuit where he evangelises the role of design in improving engagement with performance issues.
Steve is a pioneer in the world of web performance. Before SpeedCurve, he held positions as Chief Performance Yahoo!, Google's Head Performance Engineer, and Chief Performance Officer at Fastly. Steve "wrote the book" on web performance with High Performance Web Sites, and its follow-up Even Faster Web Sites. He is the creator of many performance tools and services including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Episodes, ControlJS, and Browserscope. He taught CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford University and serves as co-chair of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly.
Event
Embrace The Network and Measuring What’s Important; hosted by Twitter
Date
4th November 2015
Skill level
Beginner