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Progressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

Chrome for Developers · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Alex Russell's Chrome Dev Summit 2016 talk on building web experiences that work on slow, flaky networks and low-power devices. It argues developers should focus on the performance of real-world mobile hardware rather than desktop machines.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as the clearest case for why mobile devices are slow and why code-splitting and progressive web apps are needed.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “in a really amazing talk”

    Shows large JS frameworks blow the performance budget before app code

    feross, 2018-09 · Strong recommendation · in “The “Developer Experience” Bait-And-Switch”

  2. “This talk explains about why this is a hard requirement”

    Explains why code-splitting is essential for mobile web apps

    Touche, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “Choosing Ember over React in 2016”

  3. “Take a look at this talk on why mobile devices are so much slower than desktop devices”

    Explains why mobile devices are far slower than desktop

    inian, 2016-12 · Recommendation · in “Things I learnt making a fast website”

  4. “I think this presentation from Alex Russell does a much better job of demonstrating the need for progressive web apps”

    Makes a stronger case for the need for progressive web apps

    scribu, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “The PRPL Pattern”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: mobile web, code splitting, progressive web apps, javascript frameworks, slow networks

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