Simon Hearne

Haystack Europe took place in Berlin on 15 & 16 September as part of Berlin Search Week: two days, single track, about 120 people who build search for a living.

Website visitors and application owners alike expect near-instant feedback, especially when typing in a search bar and receiving recommendations.

My abstract promised a number.

This is the follow-up to Milvus 3.0: Closing the Search Gap.

The follow-up webinar, Migrating to Milvus, moves from comparison to migration: tooling, deployment choices and lessons from real migrations.

So you've built an application using Milvus as the vector database, using Standalone or Distributed.

About the talkPermalink to this heading# SQL makes sense.

Static site generators (SSGs) such as 11ty allow us to build super-fast websites with great developer experience.

Approximately 40% of my clients have single-page applications (SPAs), and approximately 100% of my clients care about core web vitals - the key performance metrics which impact Google search ranking.

I'm currently working on a client project using Cloudflare Workers Sites.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Way back in 2010, an engineer at YouTube kicked off Project Feather: the goal was to reduce the weight of the popular video player page to improve performance.

I have been employed in web performance roles for about a decade.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Caching headers are one of those deceptively complex web technologies which are so often overlooked or misconfigured.

Landing page hero videos are increasingly popular, especially in high fashion and luxury goods.

Back in 2010 Foviance ran an EEG study [1] which showed that participants had to concentrate 50% harder when websites were slow, as measured by alpha waves.

June 15th 2021: Multiple updates from Google I/O 2021, a Web Vitals Q&A session and another Google blog post.

One of the outcomes of the release of Core Web Vitals (and subsequent inclusion in Google's page ranking algorithm) is that we have been paying more attention to unexpected layout shifts and the cumulative layout shift (CLS) score.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Web performance is often seen as a technical discipline, arranging bits and bytes to shave off milliseconds of load time, applying best practices, using the latest protocols and formats.

Animated spinners are one of the lingering legacies of the 1990's web.

I wrote an article in 2019 where I predicted five top technologies for 2020.

Let's Encrypt recently announced that it is moving to using its own root certificate on January 11, 2021.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Extended Validation or EV Certificates were once prized for their impression of increased security.

If you've ever trained for a big sporting event: a marathon, bike race or similar, you'll know how tough it is to train to get to your peak performance.

The recent updates from Google on Core Web Vitals are a great effort to find universal speed metrics that reflect quality of user experience.

Site speed is an important but often-overlooked component in user experience.

10 Nov update: Google has announced that the Page Experience update will go live in May 2021!

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# I've been in technical pre-sales for about ten years, and software demos have been a part of my role since day one.

In SummaryPermalink to this heading# Save-data is a client hint which indicates that your users want you to send less content to them.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Cookie consent has given users control over the data that is shared with websites and third-parties, but it has made measuring performance difficult.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# I recently discovered that Firefox introduced a feature called RCWN (Race Cache With Network) in 2017.

Web performance has been a hot topic in web development and browser engineering since the first public web pages.

Now that you've got your Pi set up with Influx & Grafana, you're collecting some system stats, and measuring network performance, it's time to collect data from SmartThings!

Now that you've got your Pi set up with Influx & Grafana and you're collecting some system stats, it's time to measure network performance!

Now that you've got your Pi set up with Influx & Grafana, it's time to start collecting some data!

Step 0: Initial SetupPermalink to this heading# Follow these steps first if you have a brand new rPi: Download the latest lite Raspbian image from raspberrypi.org Get a reasonable micro SD card - 32GB is the maximum supported size.

This website is powered by Netlify, it also has Content-Security-Policy and cache-control HTTP response headers to improve client security and performance.

IntroductionPermalink to this heading# Reading the technical press you would be forgiven for thinking that 2020 is going to be a great year for web performance.

Lazy Loading ImagesPermalink to this heading# Web browsers are complex pieces of software, but still treat images relatively naïvely.

I recently configured a new private WebPageTest instance on AWS to use SSL provided by Let's Encrypt, using EFF's awesome CertBot.

It has been well documented that site speed is a major factor in business success for e-commerce websites.

Alice Goldfuss - The Container Operator’s ManualPermalink to this heading# Containers are generally presented in theory, Alice tells us how they work in real-life.

Tammy Everts - Hunting the UnicornPermalink to this heading# Tammy started researching user experience on the web in a laboratory setting - measuring individuals as they used websites.

Tim Kadlec - Redefining Web PerformancePermalink to this heading# There is a lot of under-appreciated creativity in technical work.

The promise of PWAsPermalink to this heading# Progressive Web Apps bring a native-like application experience to websites.

The site speed fallacyPermalink to this heading# In a recent webinar, Andy Davies and I asked a poll of the attendees: where do you get your site speed data?