2024 in review, new virtual meetup for webperf

My top content in 2024 (new article!) #

I just published my 2024-in-review post for my technical blog content. Predictably, it's mostly about web performance and the indie web.

Shopify Theme Vitals updates #

I've continued building out my new website that presents Core Web Vitals performance data by Shopify theme: themevitals.com. I got some great feedback on understandability, so I redesigned it a bit and added more copy. I've also added aggregations across all themes.

I always felt icky about using Substack, so I went ahead and moved the newsletter over to Buttondown. You can check out the archives and subscribe to the newsletter at buttondown.com/theme-vitals/archive/.

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New virtual meetup for web performance #

I'm starting up a new virtual meetup for web performance called PerformanceObserver. We're still working on the website, but you can sign up now for our newsletter to be notified of all future events:
buttondown.com/performanceobserver.

From other folks on the web #

A few things by other folks I enjoyed consuming since last time:

• HTML for people by Blake Watson
• Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield and its demo tool by Rick Viscomi
• Wix SEO course
• Keyword Vitals Chrome extension for seeing how Core Web Vitals performance impacts keyword rankings
• Don't like AI overviews in your Google Search results? Try out some strategies on this page - seems to work great for desktop but not always on mobile: tenbluelinks.org/
• For fun (NSFW): SwearSky - swearing as it happens live on BlueSky in fun little clouds

/Offline #

I read over 100 books in 2024! I collected my favorites in this list on Bookshop.

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Struggling with web performance? #

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