Climbing the WebPerf Leaderboard: how Dotdash optimized for speed and load time

One of the most commonly given pieces of advice for websites looking to set performance metrics is to look at your competitors, and beat them by 20%.

For many industries, finding appropriate competitors can be a challenge in and of itself, but in publishing the Webpagetest-based "Article Performance Leaderboard" at https://webperf.xyz serves as a competitive space for 50+ online publications.

This talk will explore how Dotdash learned from the Leaderboard's best performers, incorporated and adapted their approaches, and leveraged our in-house technology stack to take Dotdash sites to be at the top 5 of the leaderboard consistently.

Speakers:

Ben Cochran, VP of Front End Engineering at Dotdash:

As the VP of Engineering at Dotdash Ben manages and mentors the front end engineers who develop and maintain the entire dotdash application portfolio including our consumer facing and publishing technology applications. He is absolutely obsessed with anything JavaScript and loves a challenge.

Please join us from 5:30pm - 7:30pm. The talk itself will start at 6:30, with a mixer beforehand.
Beverages and snacks will be provided.

Event Schedule:
5:30 - 6:30 - Arrive, Open Discussion, Mixer
6:30 - 7:30 - Presentation
7:30 - Happy hour at Mercer Tavern