Eliminating Choppy Animations by Leveraging the Browser Compositor Thread
Posted: April 30, 2023
Many web applications utilize animations to achieve a variety of visual effects. For example, a web application may surface an animated…
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Layout Thrashing and Forced Reflows
Posted: December 11, 2022
The browser's style and layout process (also known as reflow ) is responsible for assigning visual styles and geometry to elements of a…
Why Your Cached JavaScript Is Still Slow and Incurs Performance Overhead
Posted: July 3, 2022
Web Developers often fixate on optimizing the delivery of assets to the end-user's device, and overlook the computation that takes place…
Eliminating Choppy Scrolling in OneDrive Web with a One-Line Change
Posted: May 22, 2022
I use Office 365 for my personal productivity tool of choice and often use the OneDrive web UX to manage my personal files and photos…
The Sequential Network Request Pattern (and why you should avoid it!)
Posted: April 30, 2022
The Sequential Network Request pattern is a web performance anti-pattern, and it's unfortunately common in production web applications…