July 9, 2014

Google Page Speed, clean front end code @ Toronto Web Performance Meetup

Organized by Barbara Bermes. Hosted at EventMobi. Blake Crosby talked about Google Page Speed.

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Blake showed that the top 4 sites in Alexa’s rankings (Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube) all had Page Speed Insights rankings above 97%. Just for kicks, here’s a few lower ranking sites:

Alexa RankURLInsights score
19Sohu.com70%
21Yandex.ru75%
22vk.com85%
23bing.com89%
24wordpress.com86%

He also talked about how SPDY and HTTP2 protocols are different and better than HTTP. Slides are here

Shalom talked about keeping a front-end codebase neat and tidy