I'm still annoyed with the death of a decent tech social media 😢 Too many people that I'd like to follow left Twitter, Mastodon thinks that linking is not a part of the web, Threads and Bluesky are just dead let's be honest. It's got to the point that LinkedIn is actually looking good? I mean WTF🤯
Core Web Vitals aren't just for developers! Decisions made by the business can make or break a websites UX. So, whether you're a non-techy using a site builder solution or a bigger org with many business stakeholders, take a read of my latest post for useful tips. web.dev/articles/opt...
Learn how business decision makers and non-developers can improve Core Web Vitals.
The Long Animation Frames API (LoAF) is a new API for helping you look at responsive issues, to help you understand and address INP. It's in origin trial from Chrome 116 so we want you to try it out and let us know how it works for you! More details: developer.chrome.com/articles/lon...
Learn about the Long Animation Frames API (LoAF) proposal which is the next iteration of the Long Tasks API and allows measuring frame update delays with attribution
Are you using Speculation Rules to prefetch or prerender pages for web performance improvements? Chrome DevTools 117 has a whole load of new debugging screens to help you with that: developer.chrome.com/blog/debuggi... Check out Beta or Canary to see em and should hit stable in a few more weeks.
Learn all about the Chrome DevTools features to debug speculation rules used to prefetch and prerender future page navigations.
Still using unload handlers on your web sites/web apps? You really need to look at moving away from them because they are extremely unreliable and will stop firing even more in the near future. Check out this post for more information: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/deprecating-unload/
The unload event will be gradually deprecated starting from Chrome 117. Learn what this means and how sites and enterprises can prepare for this
Do you use the CWV Tech Report? cwvtech.reporthttps://github.com/HTTPArchive/cwv-tech-report/discussions/30
Some of us are currently migrating the Core Web Vitals report (cwvtech.report) off Data Studio into the HTTPArchive website. We’ll maintain feature/data parity (but with an updated interface), and ....
Don’t you just love those Sundays when you suddenly discover that the next day is a bank holiday you didn’t know about?
This is really useful for any of you wondering which version of Chrome a particular bug fix landed in.