These are a little better than last night’s. Still not sure that I would spend the coin to go to Velocity though. But I suspect the really good talks are also the ones that would be hard to record.

Performance Testing: Putting Cloud Customers Back in the Driver’s Seat

  • Imad Mouline
  • Podcast
  • Video and Slides from Velocity
  • Do you know where your third party content is hosted?
  • Domain sharding using EC2 buckets – since each bucket is its own host. And you pay the same thing.
  • Is sharding now a performance hindrance in today’s browser?
  • Raw Load Time vs. Perceived Load Time (above the fold)
  • Looks like the tools mentioned in the podcast have disappeared with the acquisition of Gomez by Compuware

Time is Money – The Measurable Value of Performance by Design

  • Tim Morrow
  • Podcast
  • Video and Slides from Velocity
  • People may still not use your site even once you fix your site because they think it will still be slow
  • There is a tension between features and performance
  • Don’t have a dedicated performance team; use people from around the company so the whole organization cares about it
  • Perception is everything
  • Your content is the important content
  • Progressive rendering
  • Time to first byte
  • Javascript no longer loads with the page
  • “Based on the time we spend making these changes, we made it back within two months. After that it was just gravy” — And that hits the bottom line. This is how you talk to Business about caring about performance.
  • Do you know where your hotspots are during peak time?