Lately I’ve been giving a lot of talks about Progressive Web Apps. Towards the end of the talks there is normally a Q & A section where the audience asks questions or proposes ideas. Often during these Q & A sessions, I get asked really useful questions that are…
I am very excited to announce that I'll be presenting at this year's Fluent Conference in San Jose. It is my first time at Fluent Conference, and I am very excited to be presenting. Fluent Conference 2017 will take place on the 19th - 22nd June, and I’ll be…
Did you know that your device has the amazing ability to detect different shapes in images? Right now, whether you are on a mobile, tablet or desktop, it is capable of detecting faces, barcodes and even text in an image. Pretty amazing, huh?! According to the HTTP archive, images make…
You may be familiar with the saying “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. This saying couldn’t be more true when it comes to web performance. In our browsers today, we already have great APIs such as Navigation Timing and Resource Timing built-in, which allow…
If you’ve ever built a website and needed the ability to share to a social network, you’ll know that it’s not as easy as it first seems. In order to add basic share functionality, you often need to include a third party script and become familiar with…
Service workers are awesome. They provide us with powerful functionality to intercept and handle network requests, cache resources, send useful push notifications and so much more. Because service workers have this ability to intercept network requests, it’s essential that they run over HTTPS. In the wrong hands, a malicious…
I am very proud to announce that I am writing a new book entitled Progressive Web Apps. I started working on it during late 2016 and the book is shaping up nicely! I will be the first to admit that I am a big fan of Progressive Web Apps, and…
Progressive Web Apps (PWA’s) are truly changing the way we use the web today. Push notifications, offline web pages, and super fast load times are just a few of the great features that developers are using to build Progressive Web Apps. Quite often I find myself visiting a website…
HTTP/2 is awesome. When we enabled HTTP/2 on the settled.co.uk website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. We didn’t change any code, or even make any web performance tweaks - we made the switch and noticed the results…
When I first started learning about web page performance, I always use to focus solely on the time that it took a page to load. The excitement of seeing a web page load in an instant kept me coming back for more. Whilst web page load time is an important…