Rarely do we get to start with a fresh slate when it comes to performance, more often, we have to figure out how to make a performance transformation after the fact. In this episode, Sharell Bryant talks about Teachers Pay Teachers journey to a performance-focused organization. Luckily there were people in the company who had kind of had similar ex…

Performance is always important, but that's especially true for anyone providing essential services over a wide range of connections and devices. In this episode, Matt Hobbs talks about the challenges of building sites that perform well for the entirety of the UK. Everything that we do in terms of accessibility, in terms of web performance, in term…

You can do all the work to make your own code as fast as possible, but a few ill-performing third-party scripts can still bring your site to a crawl. In this episode, Karolina Szczur talks all about third-parties: how big of an issue they really how, how to identify which ones are the most problematic, and what you can do about it. So it's not nece…

A lot of work falls under the umbrella of "web performance" and it's hard to know where to focus, both for quick wins and for long-term maintainability. In this episode, Katie Hempenius talks about everything from JavaScript and image weight, to third-party challenges, budgets and the importance of organizational support. Now maybe your first party…

Many people want their organization to prioritize performance, but where do you start? In this episode, Reefath Rajali, a mobile developer advocate at PayPal, talks about PayPal's performance journey, starting with a simple, lightweight prototype built during a hackathon. So, that is how this journey actually started and as you said, it was not an …

How do you not only establish a culture of performance, but nurture it and scale it across a large organization? That's the question we try to answer in this week's discussion with Malek Hakim, a performance engineer at Priceline. We talk about what Priceline has been doing to cement a culture of performance across the organization, touching on eve…

Welcome to Chasing Waterfalls, a podcast featuring conversations with the people working to make the web faster for everyone. Every two weeks, a new episode will drop exploring how different people and organizations are approaching web performance, from a technical, organizational and cultural perspective. In this trailer, Tim introduces the podcas…

Great chat with Dr Karl Blanks of Conversion Rate Experts in which we discuss the power of testing and knowing your users.By John Macpherson

Harry Roberts joins the show and talks about CSS, Flexbox, Why not to use ID's, the Tipping Point and Freelance work.By John Macpherson

All about web performance and the things to watch out forBy John Macpherson

Gerry McGovern joins John on the second podcast on Web Payload. Gerry talks about his expertise with top tasks and working with adverts.By John Macpherson

Brad Frost joins the very first podcast episode on Web Payload and talks about mobile navigation patterns and responsive design.By John Macpherson

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…