Thinking Like a Browser: Understanding the Journey from URL to First & Largest Paint
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What actually happens after the browser gets your HTML? In this talk, we’ll walk through the Critical Rendering Path — from parsing and layout to paint — and build a clear mental model of how browsers turn code into pixels. Along the way, we’ll touch on connection setup, but focus on what really impacts how fast your page becomes usable.
Amrik Malhans (he/him) is a web performance consultant and full-stack engineer. He works at SpeedSense (now part of Yottaa), where he runs audits for large e-commerce sites and helps build internal tooling. He spends his time debugging the web, writing about it, and sharing what he learns through content.