Helping you craft a faster more joyful UX!

Jan 8, 2020
Setting performance budgets doesn’t need to be complex or confusing. You simply need some existing data, some monitoring, and to remember that budgets and targets are two different things...

Nov 27, 2019
How to use SpeedCurve to do A/B testing – in this case, testing the impact of custom font usage on bounce rate...

Sep 14, 2019
We love how SpeedCurve addresses performance budgets, which have been helping us achieve our goals...

May 1, 2019
We use SpeedCurve and have found it invaluable to help pinpoint potential problems along the way. The dashboards they offer around JavaScript usage and third-parties remind us to keep a record of where we’ve come from and where we need to be...

Apr 8, 2019
We used the RUM/LUX 'blocking scripts' metric to convert our last sync script and reduced load time by 40%...

Mar 22, 2019
Sometimes a small change can have a huge effect...

Feb 28, 2019
We recently started using SpeedCurve to track Unsplash’s performance. To get its “Real User Monitoring” (a.k.a. “LUX”) working with our app, we needed to do some extra work to handle client-side navigations...

Nov 9, 2018
How the web performance team tackled the task of gathering data, prevented performance regression as developers shipped new features, executed on the best opportunities to improve the Pinterest experience for our users, and made performance a priority for the company...

Oct 4, 2018
We made a simple code change but the impact on the wider GOV.UK codebase was significant. We changed the way the `@font-face` loading method referenced fonts...

Aug 29, 2018
We recently deployed a change to casper.com that loaded a piece of 3rd party JavaScript from our own server instead of the vendor’s server. This change shaved 1.7 seconds off of the start render time...

May 11, 2018
In emerging markets, maintaining optimal web performance can become a challenge: varying network conditions and different device topology cause issues. Thanks to trivago's rigorous testing culture, we identified these issues in one of our key emerging markets...

May 9, 2018
At Insider Inc., we have been ramping up our focus on synthetic testing as an important way to test web performance. A more performant user experience translates to user satisfaction...

Apr 26, 2018
NerdWallet shares how adopting SpeedCurve is "probably the biggest change we've made to ensure we are on top of our performance" by building "a culture that values site performance and measures it on a regular basis."..

Jul 13, 2017
By keeping to performance budgets throughout the entire project, we’ve produced the fastest feature-rich theme in the Shopify Theme Store...

Jun 14, 2017
When more than 20 million people use your service each month, how and when you roll out a redesign matters. When considering making a big update, we knew we had to make it better for our users not just aesthetically but also functionally...

Jun 14, 2017
I have regularly and loudly complained that the BBC News website is unnecessarily slow, so when I was given the opportunity to help rebuild one of the most visited pages of BBC News—the front page—I jumped at the chance...

Dec 5, 2016
It’s easy for a website’s performance to degrade over time. Trying to keep up with the competition through innovation rarely affords the time to tune and optimize and, often times, organizations struggle with balancing performance technical debt with their day-to-day operations...

Jul 21, 2016
Ancestry.com saw a 7% increase in conversions after improving render time by 68%, page weight by 46% and load time by 64%...

Jul 11, 2016
A mobile-first perspective is also a performance-first perspective at Vox Media. Dan Chilton and Guillermo Esteves talk about how they helped build a culture of performance...

Apr 5, 2016
In this talk, Andy shares Marks & Spencer’s performance journey, what they learned along the way, and where they plan to go from here...

Aug 7, 2015
Zillow give a blow by blow account of using SpeedCurve performance budgets to catch a rouge A/B test...

Aug 7, 2015
Look, we know our sites aren’t as performant as they could be… I mean, let’s cut to the chase here... our sites are friggin’ slow, okay!..

Sep 2, 2014
Patrick details the performance pitfalls and bottlenecks from networking to rendering their team has had to break through in order to deliver the latest news hot off the press and straight to the browser within the psychologically important 1000ms barrier...