A Need for Speed: Performance Driven Front End Development

User’s of today’s web expect the sites they visit to be smooth, interactive, load quickly, and run well. The focus and priority of the Front End Developer, should be optimization of the front end experience for every site we create, for every device, and for every user.

In this talk, we will cover how front end performance affects User Engagement and Experience; best practices for performance driven front end development; and tools to measure front end performance.

Takeaways

  • Front end performance affects the User Engagement and Experience for a website.
  • Front end performance testing is a continual process and should be considered with every line of code that we write.
  • Websites that load slow lead to increased user frustration and lower engagement.

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