High Performance Images: Beautiful Shouldn't Mean Slow (Velocity EU 2015)

Responsive images automator, to automatically audit, generate and test responsive images, presentated at CSS Day 2022 in Faenza, Italy.

Talk about Web Performance and what to do after the basics taking place at ForwardJS 2017 in San Francisco, USA.

This presentation by Bastian Grimm is an integral part of SEMrush webinar https://www.semrush.com/webinars/

http://webdesign2010.crowdvine.com/talks/10509 No one likes slow pages. Faster sites increase user satisfaction and happiness, help improve business metrics and, since April 2010, rank higher in Google search results. In this session Stoyan shares his research and expertise covering: - The performance Golden Rule, which helps you cut page loading time in half. - Speeding up the initial page rendering. - Writing smarter CSS. - Image optimizations that shave 10-30% off the file sizes, with no quality loss. - Improving the perception of speed - Maintaining the user's "flow" as they move from page to page Step ahead of your competitors by building faster and more pleasant user experiences following the proven best practices

A performance optimization presentation for WordCamp Sacramento 2016. Presented by Austin Gil. This presentation addresses issues in design, development, and project management, where performance is most greatly affected. We look at various opportunities and techniques within each stage that may offer more speed. The subjects range from beginner to advanced with tips and advice that just about anyone can walk away with, and we end with a collection of recommended tools. This presentation was designed so the slides would be useful even out of context of the presentation. Please enjoy.

Let's face it; we're not really artists (except for the artists). But that doesn't mean we can't contribute to the images on the internet. Whether you're a Photoshop guru, or don't even own a Mac, we can still make valuable contributions to ensure our digital assets are crisp and professional. In this talk, we'll look at some basic command-line tools for creating, modifying, and managing images, and look at how we can manage them properly on the web. We'll play with sprites, responsive images for these new retina displays, and techniques for optimizing performance on lower bandwidth connections and mobile web.

This discussion looks at different opportunities and techniques where project managers, designers, and developers can improve performance. The techniques presented range from beginner to advanced so just about anyone can walk away with something to apply to their next project. Topics cover concepts and planning, workflows, tools and services, plugin recommendations, and there are links to code examples as well.

This document discusses ways to improve web performance for mobile users. It outlines goals like achieving a speed index between 1,100-2,500 and first meaningful paint within 1-3 seconds. Various techniques are presented for hacking first load times, data transfer, resource loading, images and user experience. These include avoiding redirects, using HTTP/2 and service workers, modern cache controls, responsive images, preloading resources, and ensuring consistent frame rates. The overall message is that mobile performance needs more attention given average load times and high bounce rates on slow mobile sites.

Save 10% off ANY FITC event with discount code 'slideshare' See our upcoming events at www.fitc.ca OVERVIEW As most Android developers know, dealing with the extreme degree of fragmentation in the Android ecosystem is often challenging. Among the more difficult challenges is managing memory usage, as devices that are in the market today can have as little as 13MB of memory. Now imagine the pains that developers go through when faced with the headache of having massive bitmaps eat up memory in a millisecond. In this presentation, James Halpern will talk about the complexities of image and memory management in Android and walk you through the creation of a successful, powerful and open source image management utility. Come to this presentation to learn about techniques that will help you optimize the performance of your apps. Learn about Android’s memory limitations and the role the garbage collector plays in your app’s performance and complexity. Learn how to communicate android graphics issues to developers, and how good design can create fewer bugs. James will conclude this presentation by briefly walking you through his open sourced image management solution that gracefully handles most of these issues in a simple to use package.

The web doesn't stop at the desktop anymore. Our image assets need to do more than look good in one context. In this talk, I look at how images like JPEG, GIFs, SVG, Icons, Unicode, and more can be used in a multi-device environment.

CSS Day 2017 Faenza, Italy. They are a W3C recommendation since novembre 2016, featuring the new "picture" tag and the "srcset" and "sizes" attributes in the "img" tag. In this talk we'll see what they are, how to use them in which cases to prefer what usage, and some best practices to give a boost you your web applications or websites.

The document discusses 7 common mistakes made with image optimization on websites and how to correct them. These mistakes include using GIF files when PNG would be smaller, not optimizing PNG files to remove unnecessary metadata, not stripping metadata from JPEG files, using truecolor PNGs when palette PNGs would suffice, using CSS filters instead of optimized image formats, serving dynamically generated images without optimization, and not combining images into CSS sprites. The document provides examples and case studies demonstrating the potential file size savings from optimizing images.

My talk covering some of the very latest in web performance optimisation (paint timings, critical rendering path, custom web fonts, etc.) for technical marketers & SEOs from SearchLeeds 2018.

Especially in a mobile-first world, fast loading websites are of utmost importance. Also, Google has been very vocal about anything web performance in the last few years and is pushing hard to innovate repeatedly. But performance is so much more! User satisfaction should be the main goal because expectations are clear: You’ve got two to three seconds maximum to deliver, so make it count. During Bastian's SearchLeeds 2018 talk he walked through various advanced topics around web performance optimisation going way beyond Accelerated Mobile Pages (and other short-term solutions) to make any website really, really fast.

This document discusses 4 simple optimizations that can be made to images on websites to improve performance: 1) Reducing image quality, 2) Using optimized file formats like JPEG, WebP and SVG, 3) Resizing images to actual display size, and 4) Implementing lazy loading so images outside the viewport are not downloaded. It provides examples and data on how each technique can significantly reduce data usage and improve load times.

This document discusses various techniques for optimizing images and other media on websites. It covers file formats like JPEG, PNG and SVG as well as tools for optimizing images. It also discusses responsive images, video optimization, icon fonts and animated GIF alternatives. HTTP/2 optimizations are mentioned at the end.

This document discusses optimizing images for fast delivery on mobile websites. It outlines four simple image optimizations: quality, format, sizing, and lazy loading. For each optimization, it provides examples and data on current usage. Quality recommends compressing to 85% without significant quality loss. Format suggests using webp and svg where supported. Sizing involves generating responsive images at appropriate breakpoints. Lazy loading delays image loading to above the fold content. Together, these techniques can significantly improve performance without compromising quality.

Serverless means handing off server management to the cloud platforms – along with their security risks. With the “pros” ensuring our servers are patched, what’s left for application owners to protect? As it turns out, quite a lot. This talk discusses the aspects of security serverless doesn’t solve, the problems it could make worse, and the tools and practices you can use to keep yourself safe. Required audience experience Basic knowledge of how FaaS and Serverless works Objective of the talk As many companies explore the world of serverless, it’s important they understand the aspects of security this new world helps them with, and the ones they need to care more about. This talk will provide a framework to understand how to prioritise and approach security for Serverless apps.

Guy Podjarny breaks into a vulnerable serverless application and exploits multiple weaknesses, helping better understand some of the mistakes people make, their implications, and how to avoid them. Video available on: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/serverless-security-2017

Slides from my ServerlessConf Austin 2017. Serverless means handing off server management to the cloud platforms - along with their security risks. With the “pros” ensuring our servers are patched, what’s left for application owners to protect? As it turns out, quite a lot. This talk discusses the aspects of security serverless doesn’t solve, the problems it could make worse, and the tools and practices you can use to keep yourself safe

Some of the very things that make JavaScript awesome can also leave it exposed. Guy Podjarny and Danny Grander walk through some sample security flaws unique to Node’s async nature and surrounding ecosystem (or especially relevant to it)—e.g., memory leaks via the buffer object, ReDoS and other algorithmic DoS attacks (which impact Node due to its single-threaded nature), and timing attacks leveraging the EventLoop—and show how these could occur in your own code or in npm dependencies.

npm packages are awesome, but also introduce risk. This presentation explains how packages may introduce known vulnerabilities into your application, explains their impact, and most importantly, shows how to protect yourself. The few slides were complemented by running several vulnerability exploits against the vulnerable demo app Goof from here: https://github.com/Snyk/goof

Building software today involves more assembly than actual coding. Much of our code is in fact pulled in open source packages, and the applications heavily rely on surrounding third party binaries. These third parties make us more productive - but they also introduce an enormous risk. Each third party component is a potential source of vulnerabilities or malicious code, each third party service a potential door into our system. This talk contains more information about this risk, create a framework for digesting and tackling it, and lists a myriad of tools that can help.

When users use our sites, they put their faith in us. They trust we will keep their information from reaching others, believe we provided the information they see, and allow us to run (web) code on their devices. Using HTTPS to secure our conversations is a key part of maintaining this trust. If that’s not motivation enough, the web’s giants are actively promoting HTTPS, requiring it for features such as HTTP2 & ServiceWorker, using it for search engine ranking and more. To make the most of the web, you need to use HTTPS. This deck reviews what HTTPS is, discusses why you should prioritize using it, and cover some of the easiest (and most cost effective) steps to get started using HTTPS

Slides from my Web Directions South 2014 Talk. Abstract: Responsive Web Design (RWD) is upon us, and it seems like every website has either gone responsive or planning to do so. And in this rush to implement – performance is left behind… Last November (2013), I ran a test identifying the responsive websites amongst the top 10,000 sites, and inspected their performance traits. The results were depressing, showing many sites have gone responsive, and hardly any tackled performance. In this talk, we’ll track the progress (or lack there of) we made as an industry. We’ll look at the results of a new test, tracking our progress in adopting RWD and – more importantly – in addressing its performance implications. We’ll share high level stats, highlight key trends, drill into representative examples, and come away with a better understanding of what we should be doing better, both on our own sites and as an industry

Third party components are a part of any modern site: JS libs, analytics, trackers, share buttons, ads. Many components, each adding its performance cost, cause render delays or can effectively take your site down. This isn’t your code nor your servers, so what can you do about it? This presentation will answer this question with strategies and tactics for keeping 3rd parties from taking you down. This talk was given at Velocity Santa Clara, 2014: The presentation from Velocity Santa Clara, 2014 (http://velocityconf.com/velocity2014/public/schedule/detail/35448).

This document discusses how a URL is no longer sufficient for content delivery given modern dynamic web pages. It proposes implementing "rules driven delivery" where delivery definitions are structured as reusable, hierarchical rules that define criteria for when to apply delivery behaviors. These rules would be pushed to CDN edges to enable offloading and improve performance over simply relying on URLs and caching. Examples of rules provided include redirecting mobile users, image format negotiation based on Accept headers, and granular caching based on request header values. The goal is more flexible content delivery and caching optimized for a wide variety of dynamic web page scenarios.

Awareness to Responsive Web Design has grown substantially over the last few years, and practically any major organization has some RWD project in their Mobile Strategy decks. However, are we just talking about it, or actually doing it? I ran a mass test to identify the responsive websites amongst the top 100,000 websites in the world. Eventually, we'll be able to rerun this test to track RWD adoption over time, but for now we can use it to see how RWD sites compare to each other and to non-RWD sites. This short presentation, given over beers at the awesome SmashingConf, shares some such insights. A (slightly smaller) but more detailed description of the test can be found here: www.guypo.com/mobile/roughly-1-in-8-websites-is-responsive/

Images are quickly becoming one of the most critical factors for web performance. On one hand, users are demanding more visual websites, driving an increase in the number of images on a page and making background images cool again. On the other hand, technology trends such as Retina displays and RWD are making it much harder to choose the right image to download at any given time, avoiding the download of excess bytes. In this talk, I go over what you can do to maximize the impact of every image byte. I explain the concept of Image Compression, understand how it applies to different image formats, and show the tools and techniques you should use to communicate the best visuals with the fewest bytes. Lastly, I show how to combine image compression and Retina displays, and discuss some newer image formats and how you can take advantage of them today

Almost every site on the internet today serves 3rd-party assets and code - jQuery, analytics, trackers, share buttons, ads - from both their own servers and others - cloud providers, dedicated hardware, CDNs, google hosting. These third parties can have a significant effect on performance, delaying the load event, deferring actions, and being a single point of failure beyond your control. This deck discusses techniques and strategies for working with 3rd parties within these limitations, and shares some relevant community work.

Third parties are a part of our reality, and offer great business value - but also present some very real performance concerns. This deck attempts to define and offer strategies, along with some practical tips, on how to deal with this problem.

Images seem simple - they're static, independent from each other, and don't mess up the DOM. However, images make up 60%-70% of page bytes, and their visual nature makes them critical for user experience. Investing in Image Optimization is a highly worthwhile investment. This presentation covers 4 aspects of Image Optimization: - Optimizing Image formats (including background on GIF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, JPEG XR and more) - Optimizing image delivery - Optimizing image loading in the page - Responsive Images - optimizing images for mobile screens

(A presentation given at Velocity Conference, London 2012) Mobile Optimization is complicated, and there’s no single silver bullet. Many different bottlenecks take their toll along the way, and while some have a huge impact, others still add up. In this presentation, we’ll take a website and optimize it step by step. In each step we’ll touch on a problem, discuss how to solve it – perhaps in multiple ways – and show the effect of the solution. In the process, we’ll also touch on topics such as measuring mobile performance, differences between browsers, and which pitfalls are common

We all know Mobile is different, but by how much? This presentation attempts to quantify the difference between mobile and non-mobile, focusing on CPU, network and browser differences.

(This version of the presentation is oriented at a web performance audience, and includes some mobile design 101 content) Mobile Web Design is complicated, and several design paradigms have been created to help deal with the challenges the mobile landscape creates. Amongst other implications, each paradigm also carries its own performance pitfalls, which can turn a well designed site into a horribly slow user experience. This presentation covers the top design paradigms - Dedicated Websites (mdot) and Responsive Web Design, gives some background on each, and digs into the performance do's and don'ts for your design of choice.

Choosing your mobile design paradigm is hard, and performance is an often overlooked parameter in this decision process. This presentation discusses the top performance concerns for the top mobile design paradigms - Dedicated Sites (mdot) and Responsive Web Design (RWD). Presented at Breaking Dev (bdconf) in April, 2012.

The Mobile Web is a complicated beast, making Mobile Web Performance a tough problem to tackle. Is an iPad on WiFi a part of the Mobile Web? How about a laptop with a 3G stick? This presentation tries to split the Mobile Web into three categories, to make it more manageable: Network, Software & Hardware. For each, it reviews the performance challenges this category entails, and offers possible solutions to those challenges. A recording of this presentation (with audio) is available here: http://vimeo.com/32917131

Quantum Communications Q&A with Gemini LLM. These are based on Shannon's Noisy channel Theorem and offers how the classical theory applies to the quantum world.

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Blockchain technology is transforming industries and reshaping the way we conduct business, manage data, and secure transactions. Whether you're new to blockchain or looking to deepen your knowledge, our guidebook, "Blockchain for Dummies", is your ultimate resource.

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Everything that I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently during June 2024

This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator. Link to presentation recording and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/ Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Solar Storms (Geo Magnetic Storms) are the motion of accelerated charged particles in the solar environment with high velocities due to the coronal mass ejection (CME).

Everything that I found interesting last month about the irresponsible use of machine intelligence

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Slide of the tutorial entitled "Paradigm Shifts in User Modeling: A Journey from Historical Foundations to Emerging Trends" held at UMAP'24: 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (July 1, 2024 | Cagliari, Italy)

In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.

YOUR RELIABLE WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT TEAM — FOR LASTING SUCCESS WPRiders is a web development company specialized in WordPress and WooCommerce websites and plugins for customers around the world. The company is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, but our team members are located all over the world. Our customers are primarily from the US and Western Europe, but we have clients from Australia, Canada and other areas as well. Some facts about WPRiders and why we are one of the best firms around: More than 700 five-star reviews! You can check them here. 1500 WordPress projects delivered. We respond 80% faster than other firms! Data provided by Freshdesk. We’ve been in business since 2015. We are located in 7 countries and have 22 team members. With so many projects delivered, our team knows what works and what doesn’t when it comes to WordPress and WooCommerce. Our team members are: - highly experienced developers (employees & contractors with 5 -10+ years of experience), - great designers with an eye for UX/UI with 10+ years of experience - project managers with development background who speak both tech and non-tech - QA specialists - Conversion Rate Optimisation - CRO experts They are all working together to provide you with the best possible service. We are passionate about WordPress, and we love creating custom solutions that help our clients achieve their goals. At WPRiders, we are committed to building long-term relationships with our clients. We believe in accountability, in doing the right thing, as well as in transparency and open communication. You can read more about WPRiders on the About us page.

Your comprehensive guide to RPA in healthcare for 2024. Explore the benefits, use cases, and emerging trends of robotic process automation. Understand the challenges and prepare for the future of healthcare automation

We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner! We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too! Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇 08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30') 09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10') Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner 09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30') Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25') Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company 10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30') Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15') 10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45') Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath 11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45') Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager 12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr) 13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30') Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance 13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30') Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai 14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling

Sustainability requires ingenuity and stewardship. Did you know Pigging Solutions pigging systems help you achieve your sustainable manufacturing goals AND provide rapid return on investment. How? Our systems recover over 99% of product in transfer piping. Recovering trapped product from transfer lines that would otherwise become flush-waste, means you can increase batch yields and eliminate flush waste. From raw materials to finished product, if you can pump it, we can pig it.

Widya Salim and Victor Ma will outline the causal impact analysis, framework, and key learnings used to quantify the impact of reducing Twitter's network latency.

As a popular open-source library for analytics engineering, dbt is often used in combination with Airflow. Orchestrating and executing dbt models as DAGs ensures an additional layer of control over tasks, observability, and provides a reliable, scalable environment to run dbt models. This webinar will cover a step-by-step guide to Cosmos, an open source package from Astronomer that helps you easily run your dbt Core projects as Airflow DAGs and Task Groups, all with just a few lines of code. We’ll walk through: - Standard ways of running dbt (and when to utilize other methods) - How Cosmos can be used to run and visualize your dbt projects in Airflow - Common challenges and how to address them, including performance, dependency conflicts, and more - How running dbt projects in Airflow helps with cost optimization Webinar given on 9 July 2024

An invited talk given by Mark Billinghurst on Research Directions for Cross Reality Interfaces. This was given on July 2nd 2024 as part of the 2024 Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria (July 1st - 7th)

Today’s digitally connected world presents a wide range of security challenges for enterprises. Insider security threats are particularly noteworthy because they have the potential to cause significant harm. Unlike external threats, insider risks originate from within the company, making them more subtle and challenging to identify. This blog aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of insider security threats, including their types, examples, effects, and mitigation techniques.