The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the HTTP Archive

On 14th October 2014 at The Financial Times as part of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the HTTP Archive

The web is a fascinating place. Every day millions of websites around the world are constantly evolving and growing. Fortunately, great resources such as the HTTP archive capture statistics from over 300KURLS, and provide us with useful insights into the world of web performance.

The Http Archive contains a wealth of data that is only just beginning to be explored. This data can provide us with an extensive list of web performance lessons. What are some of the techniques that the best websites on the net are using? What are some of the worst sites out there doing wrong? In this session we will uncover the good, the bad, and the ugly of the HTTP Archive and show one simple thing for each that will dramatically improve their page load performance.

Apart from the more well known sites out there, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc – there are a load of unsung web performance heroes that are building great sites every day. This session will bring some of their techniques to light and encourage learning within the community. The presentation will include short interviews with the teams responsible and learn how they approached their performance problem and achieved success.

Engineers will look to attend this presentation because they will learn how simple changes can affect the performance of their web pages. Simple improvements can really go a long way toward improving page performance!

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