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Velocity Origin Story In 2007, my first book, High Performance Web Sites, was selling very well. That, plus the launch of YSlow, brought more attention to web performance. As a result, Jon Jenkins invited me to give a tech talk at Amazon. Afterward...

Background The HTTP Archive crawls the world’s top 300K URLs twice each month and records detailed information like the number of HTTP requests, the most popular image formats, and the use of gzip compression. We also crawl the top 5K URLs on real...

Seven years ago, Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins came to the realization that they both worked within “tribes” that, while ostensibly quite different, were talking about many of the same things. Front-end developers and engineers were figuring out how...

Browser tools Chrome Dev Tools Built into Chrome. Edit HTML, CSS and JavaScript live, or run code in the console. Firebug Tools for web development available as a plugin for Firefox. Firefox also now has its own developer tools: choose Web Developer...

The other day I came across this tweet from Kyle Simpson: is there a term (other than "privilege") for hating the web more and more as a user but liking it more as a developer? asking for a friend. — getify (@getify) June 17, 2015 I don’t have a...