Ep. 3: Web perf allies and INP in the trenches
In this episode we have Andrea Verlicchi walking us through some real-world case studies of optimizing INP, and Ethan Gardner will discuss how to make allies to enable our efforts to make websites faster.
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Improving Web Responsiveness: INP fixes from real-world cases
Interaction to Next Paint (INP), Google's newest Core Web Vital, focuses on a site's responsiveness to user interactions. This talk will demonstrate practical techniques for improving slow interactions through real-world case studies of debugging and optimizing poor INP. You'll leave this session equipped to identify, troubleshoot, and fix slow interactions, ensuring a consistently responsive user experience.
Andrea Verlicchi (he/him) is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) with 25 years of front-end development experience and 5 years in consulting and web performance optimization. He is passionate about front-end development, web performance, accessibility, and user experience (UX) optimization, and stays constantly updated on web standards and technologies. He currently works at Speed Kit and enjoys sharing his passion for technology through speaking at web conferences, writing on his blog, and contributions to Medium and Smashing Magazine. Beyond web performance, you can have long conversations with Andrea about sustainability, cultures, psychology, languages, and dialects.
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Making Allies with Web Performance
Web performance data is often a proxy for critical business metrics. Using data to tell a story that is meaningful and relevant to business stakeholders can help form alliances and increase advocacy for web performance work throughout an organization. This talk will explore how to frame the engineering data in terms of competitive advantage, revenue impact, and user experience to help make performance optimization a strategic priority.
Ethan Gardner (he/him) is a full-stack engineer with expertise in front-end development, focused on creating high-performance web applications, identifying process efficiencies, and elevating development teams through mentorship. His work history includes a range of roles from individual contributor to leadership and spans industries such as media, advertising, hospitality, and the public sector.
