I attended the first day of the conference this year. I didn't take that much notes but here it is in case your interested:
Design and Performance by Steve Souders
Slides at: http://stevesouders.com/
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<li>May be useful to do prototyping early instead of just getting mock ups from UX</li>
<li>W3C Web timing specs
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<li>Navigation Timing
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<li>overall page metrics: performance.timing, now()</li>
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<li>Resource Timing
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<li>individual HTTP requests
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<li>performance.getEntries()</li>
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<li>User Timing
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<li>performance.mark, performance.measure</li>
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<li>Example about image display time to load
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<li>add performance.measure in two places and take the max(): one on the image unload attribute and the other one at the bottom of the page.</li>
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I attended the first day of the conference this year. I didn't take that much notes but here it is in case your interested: Design and Performance by Steve...