Benedikt shows how V8 compiles your JavaScript programs, and explains a few tricks you can use to avoid draining application performance down the sink.

An impressively low-level article that we hope gives you a good idea about what happens in V8 when it comes to optimization.

We discuss how Object#toString performs in the V8 engine, why it’s important, how it changed with ES2015 symbols, and how to speed it up.

During the redesign I was faced with a problem and I had to rethink the way I inline CSS in my blog, so I figured it’d be a good time to write about it in more …

Pony Foo’s design remained largely the same throughout its history so far, as I never really spent a lot of time on its design. Today I’m thrilled to …

There’s plenty of performance optimization techniques in web development. Particularly, if you look into each portion of the web stack in detail. In the …

For the past few months I’ve been speaking at conferences about web performance. Unfortunately, none of those awesome conferences have published their talk videos

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

Peter-Paul Koch – or @ppk – has once again published a rupturing article titled “Stop pushing the web forward” that is surely going to set …

Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk) recently wrote an article that generated noticeable turmoil. One of the best responses was Jeremy Keith (@adactio)'s article, …

We’ve already covered the different techniques you could use to vastly improve the performance of your front-end applications, their page load time, and the …

The year is 2014, a ninja rockstar band goes up against the now long-forgotten progressive enhancement technique, forsaking the origins of the web and everything they …

This article aims to cover the performance gains I’ve attained in the redesign of Pony Foo, deployed last week to production. I’ll be covering a few …

Catching, or even tracing errors in Node applications can be tricky sometimes. I wanted to share a few practices that can help you keep your application up in most …