Performance/Guides/Recommended Reads
< Performance | Guides
This is a list of reading material to learn about web performance, as recommended by the Wikimedia Performance.
Books
- Ilya Grigorik - High Performance Browser Networking
- Steven C Seow - Designing and Engineering Time - The Psychology of Time Perception in Software
- Tammy Everts - Time Is Money
- Rick Viscomi, Andy Davies and Marcel Duran - Using WebPageTest
- Lara Hogan - Designing For Performance
Blogs
A list of interesting blogs to follow, in no particular order:
- https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/
- https://nolanlawson.com former Microsoft Edge, Wikipedia-Chromium collab
- https://nicj.net/ Akamai, W3C WebPerf
- https://jakearchibald.com/ Chrome devrel
- https://surma.dev/ Shopify, former Chrome devrel
- https://simonhearne.com/ Elastic
- https://danluu.com/ hardware and systems engineer, former Google/Twitter
- https://wdrl.info/archive Weekly digest
- https://www.sitespeed.io/blog/
- https://tstarling.com/blog/
- https://timotijhof.net/
- https://csswizardry.com/archive/
- https://infrequently.org/ Microsoft, former Google Chrome
- https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/
- https://code.flickr.net/
- https://technology.blog.gov.uk/
- https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/
- https://tech.trivago.com/
- https://v8.dev/
- https://calendar.perfplanet.com/
- https://techblog.wikimedia.org/
- https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/
- https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
- https://cutlefish.substack.com/
Misc
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/speed/metrics_changelog/README.md Changelogs for the metrics of Google's Core Web Vitals.
- https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/ by Google
- https://www.perfplanet.com/ aggregator with many of the above feeds
Matrix
- https://matrix.to/#/#perftest:mozilla.org Mozilla channel about performance testing