The Path to Performance is a podcast dedicated to fostering a culture around web performance in organizations. We talk to guests who have successfully integrated performance as part of their culture and the benefits they have seen. Hosts Katie and Tim also discuss relevant and interesting news in the world of performance.
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On today’s episode we sit down with Marcy Sutton—a senior front end engineer at Deque Systems, where she works on accessibility. We talk about the intersection and differentiations in performance and accessibility. Marcy explains that there’s a huge audience that’s being missed by not making your website accessible. Unfortunately, if it’s not somet…
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Episode 11 with Steve Souders and Mark Zeman
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On today’s episode we sit down with Steve Souders and Mark Zeman of SpeedCurve. We talk about the benefits that come from Developers and Designers working side by side, and how the users are often a key component in uniting these (and other) disciplines. Mark discusses “perceived performance”, and we talk more about flowing the user experience over…
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Our guest this week is Tammy Everts. Tammy is a Senior Researcher and Evangelist at SOASTA. In this episode, we discuss getting started with performance budgets, why you should focus on article and product page load times instead of homepage load times, how to build a case for improved web performance to your company or team, the real impact of per…
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Why are Apple's product pages so heavy? When is the right time to choose aesthetic wins over performance wins? We explore these questions in today's preshow. We're also joined this week by web animation expert Val Head. We're taking a deep dive into web animations; how Val got started with animation, the benefits of animations in UI, why you should…
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Episode 08 with Sophie Shepherd of Ushahidi
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This week, we have a brief discussion about how third party ad networks affect performance on news sites before talking with Sophie Shepherd. Sophie is a Senior Designer at Ushahidi, a non-profit software company that develops free and open-source products for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping. We discussed the challeng…
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Our guest this week is Brenna Heaps. Brenna currently works at GitHub, but previously was a project manager at Happy Cog. She managed several projects that Katie was a part of, so we asked her to join us on the show today to share her tips and advice on managing projects and teams, selling clients on performance, sticking to performance budgets, an…
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Episode 06 with Matt Shull of Aristotle Interactive
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Our guest this week is Matt Shull. Matt works at Aristotle Interactive where he manages projects and helps shape performance best practices. He also teaches others about web design/development through Thinkful in his spare time. In this episode, we talk about Matt's experience with making sites fast for big clients, the tools they use at Aristotle …
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Episode 05 with Brian Greene and John Hoyt of Nationwide Insurance
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This week we talk with Brian Greene and John Hoyt, both both members of the user experience team at Nationwide Insurance. We discuss the challenges of working with such a big team, how they promote performance across departments, managing user expectations and improving perception of speed by designing feedback mechanisms, and more. Show Links: Vel…
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This week we're joined by special guest Jeff Veen. Jeff founded Typekit, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011. He recently stepped down from his position at Adobe to join True Ventures as a Design Partner. In this episode, Jeff shares what he's learned about the importance of design and performance, we talk about why slow page load speeds are a big …
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This week, Katie and Tim talk to Jeff Lembeck of the Filament Group about how they conduct performance analysis, how they sell performance, why everyone needs a "Jank Tank", and the importance of perceived performance. Our sponsor this week is SpeedCurve. SpeedCurve is built on top of the WebPageTest API and allows you to get continuous feedback on…
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This week, Tim talks about performance budgets, and shares how he sets up a performance budget for the sites he works on. We also speak with Mark Dorrison about how he focuses on performance at a technical level, how to talk performance with your clients, how to sell performance to clients that aren't familiar with how important it really is, how t…
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Welcome to the Path to Performance, a podcast for everyone dedicated to making websites faster. In this episode, we discuss Tim's latest project, What Does My Site Cost, HTTP2, and a new site for performance audits (perfaudits.com). For our interview this week, we're joined by Lara Hogan. Lara is the Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Ets…
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