Infrequently Noted
Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell
My blog discusses browsers, web standards, web performance, and how they relate to the competition between the web and native app ecosystems.
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For most of the past decade, I have spent a considerable fraction of my professional life consulting with teams building on the web. It is not going well. Not only are new services being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance...
TL;DR: To serve users at the 75th percentile (P75) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets, thanks to device and...
Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake. Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. At my age, one knows better. And yet. As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel, I must deconstruct the ways Apple...
Since 2015 I have been lucky to collaborate with more than a hundred teams building PWAs and consult on some of the world's largest sites. Engineers and managers on these teams universally want to deliver great experiences and have many...
If you work on a browser, you will often hear remarks like, Why don't you just put [popular framework] in the browser? This is a good question — or at least it illuminates how browser teams think about tradeoffs. Spoiler: it's gnarly....
Note: This post first ran as part of Sergey Chernyshev and Stoyan Stefanov's indispensible annual series. It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get...