Marc Slocum Interviews Joshua Bixby
Joshua Bixby, President, Strangeloop Networks
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
6 min, 43 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cJmNsKmTsQ

My Notes:

  • User expectations of mobile in terms of optimization
    • Very little data to answer scientifically
    • Long term need desktop and mobile site performance to come together
  • Need to collect the data before setting benchmarks
  • Acceleration and Business Benefits Research
    • Huge payback for performance improvement
  • Initial thing that a company should do
    • Set benchmarch and understand how user sees the site
    • Keep alives on
    • Compression on
  • Workshop
    • Analyzed Velocity home page
    • Made worse than reality and brought it to current then improved