Link archive: October 28th, 2018

Phil Nash and Jeremy Keith Save the Safari Video Playback Day

I love this example of paying it forward:

• Phil Nash wrote a post on his site that really helped me, so
• I wrote a post on my site, which helped Peter, so
• Peter wrote this post on his site, which showed up via webmention on my site, and now
• this post will help somebody else …who I hope will write about it.

The Three Types of Performance Testing – CSS Wizardry

Harry divides his web performance work into three categories:

1. Proactive
2. Reactive
3. Passive

I feel like a lot of businesses are still unsure where to even start when it comes to performance monitoring, and as such, they never do. By demystifying it and breaking it down into three clear categories, each with their own distinct time, place, and purpose, it immediately takes a lot of the effort away from them: rather than worrying what their strategy should be, they now simply need to ask ‘Do we have one?’