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95% of airline websites fail Core Web Vitals(calibreapp.com)
3 points by benschwarz 3d ago|1 comments
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by benschwarz 4y ago
We used this to generate dynamic share cards for our core web vitals checker tool (plug: https://calibreapp.com/tools/core-web-vitals-checker ). Previously new uncached requests for Open graph share-card images were gen
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by benschwarz 4y ago
My company moved a 600GB postgres db to crunchydata ( https://www.crunchydata.com ), the process was super smooth. In fact, it went so well that I agreed to a quick case study: https://www.crunchydata.com/case-stud
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Why Lighthouse Performance Score doesn’t work(calibreapp.com)
1 points by benschwarz 5y ago|0 comments
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Next.js Performance: Making a Fast Framework Even Faster(calibreapp.com)
2 points by benschwarz 5y ago|0 comments
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Core Web Vitals Checker – Metrics from Google's Crux Dataset(calibreapp.com)
2 points by benschwarz 5y ago|0 comments
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Small Bundles, Fast Pages: What to do when there's too much JavaScript(calibreapp.com)
1 points by benschwarz 5y ago|0 comments
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by benschwarz 7y ago
That's what I took from it yep.
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by benschwarz 7y ago
Hi, I'm the author :-) I've left significant levels of details about pagespeed on the lighthouse issue tracker over the last few months. It's really frustrating to see the lighthouse team being blamed for something that isn&#
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by benschwarz 7y ago
Because it's in the code and it's factually correct. It felt weird to not mention it!
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by benschwarz 7y ago
… but to answer your question better. It sucks that Google's own services don't live up to the performance expectations of tools made in other parts of Google.
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by benschwarz 7y ago
Hi! Author of the post here. Lighthouse definitely has some improvements to make for the audit suggestions that offer advice to improve the score. I think people get a little bit frustrated/blinded by the advice when there's nothi
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How Google Pagespeed works(calibreapp.com)
179 points by benschwarz 7y ago|45 comments
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What if browsers natively supported lazy loading? Turns out, soon they might(calibreapp.com)
2 points by benschwarz 8y ago|0 comments
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The Critical Request – A look at how browsers prioritise network requests(css-tricks.com)
2 points by benschwarz 9y ago|0 comments
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Your site without JavaScript(building.calibreapp.com)
3 points by benschwarz 9y ago|1 comments
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Sure! Here goes: The App itself is boring old rails, with postgres (get me started on how much I like postgres and I will literally bore you to tears.) The original views were all haml and sass delivered via the asset pipeline. I sprinkled
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Please do! There's a fairly relaxed 14 day trial. (And you get a fresh trial if you create a new "team"/organisation
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Web page test is a succhhh a great tool, and its really great for one off tests. Calibre will automatically hit your site daily (or, when you ping the snapshot api), and you'll have a full history of what happened and when. With Calibr
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Without being super familiar with the tech that any of these companies are running — The biggest thing that sets Calibre apart is that its entirely built using the Chrome developer tools APIs. I like to think about it as someone on your tea
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Yeah… that animation isn't what it should be for a performance product—luckily, after this (and the lighthouse integration I'm working on right now), I'll have all-new marketing too! Edit: Thank you! :-)
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Atm, the focus is clean room, but real time/user metrics are on the horizon—especially when the company is more than just me!
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by benschwarz 9y ago
Hi HN! I'm Ben, the solo founder of Calibre Analytics: https://calibreapp.com . Calibre monitors websites and applications in a clean-room testing environment from all over the world. Up until January Calibre has been an &qu
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Show HN: Calibre Test Profiles – Test your sites under real world conditions(calibreapp.com)
57 points by benschwarz 9y ago|17 comments
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by benschwarz 10y ago
You're right.
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by benschwarz 12y ago
Chrome / Blink has pulled the implementation for now because of changes to the spec / poor implementation. It'll come back (in time). Ref to feature being removed: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org
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CSSConf is coming to Australia(2014.cssconf.com.au)
10 points by benschwarz 13y ago|0 comments
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by benschwarz 13y ago
I wrote about code tests and interviews a couple of months ago. ( http://germanforblack.com/post/52224250893/the-perfect-code-... ) Heres a choice quote that I'm still happy with: "Programming isn’t theatr
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Rdio is 503ing(rdio.com)
1 points by benschwarz 13y ago|0 comments
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The "perfect" code interview(germanforblack.com)
3 points by benschwarz 13y ago|0 comments

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