Tim KadlecLess Data Doesn’t Mean a Lesser ExperienceAfter yesterday’s post, someone on Twitter expressed concern about providing a “degraded experience” to users who have Save-Data enabled.Aug 30, 2019Aug 30, 2019
Tim KadlecSave-Data UsageYesterday someone at Shopify let me know on Twitter that they started reducing page weight if the Save-Data header is on.Aug 30, 2019Aug 30, 2019
Tim KadlecApproachable ToolingI’m lucky to be able to work with a wide variety of organizations and teams, with different architectures and workflows. I like it. It…Jul 25, 2019Jul 25, 2019
Tim KadlecMissed UnderstandingThere are two basic ways to respond when someone expresses frustration about not understanding a tool or technique that we do.Jul 19, 2019Jul 19, 2019
Tim KadlecCharacteristics of a Strong Performance CultureDuring Katie and Addy’s Google I/O talk, they referred to an internal study that found that 40% of large brands regress on web performance…May 30, 2019May 30, 2019
Tim KadlecNew Network FallaciesI remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet…Apr 18, 2019Apr 18, 2019
Tim KadlecMaking Sense of Chrome Lite PagesGoogle formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been….let’s say mixed. Understandably so.Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019
Tim KadlecPerformance Budgets That StickOccasionally I hear some chatter about performance budgets “not working.” And, to be fair, I have seen companies who adopt a budget and…Mar 7, 2019Mar 7, 2019
Tim KadlecLimiting JavaScript?Yesterday there was a bit of a heated discussion around a WebKit issue that suggested putting a limit on the amount of JavaScript a…Jan 31, 20191Jan 31, 20191
Tim KadlecThe Bias in What We BuildI’ve been thinking a lot lately about our biases and their influence on what we build and how. We’re all biased in some way — it’s an…Jan 6, 2017Jan 6, 2017