Frontend Lightning Talks - Web Performance

Frontend Lighting Talks - summary:

16:25 - 16:30 🪑 Walkin!
16:30 - 16:40 👋 Welcome & Introduction
16.40 - 17.05: 💬 Level up Your Front-End Performance - Jesper Ingels
17.05 - 17.30: 💬 Turbocharging your website: New developments in web performance - Bart Kooijman
17:30 - 17: 40 🍻 Leftover questions and closing

The Frontend Lightning talks is for everybody! This time we will dive into the world of web performance.

Level Up Your Front-End Performance
A fast website can make all the difference in how users experience your product. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at the impact of web performance on usability, user satisfaction, and business outcomes.

You'll learn what Core Web Vitals like LCP, CLS, and INP actually mean, why they matter, and how to measure them effectively. We’ll also look at the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic testing, and how both can help you make smarter performance decisions.

On top of that, I’ll share practical techniques to optimize video as the Largest Contentful Paint, improve font loading, and ensure animations run smoothly without hurting performance.

If you care about building fast, user-friendly websites, this talk will give you the tools and insights to get there.

Turbocharging your website: New developments in web performance
In this talk Bart Kooijman will share his and the industry’s latest learnings, tips, and tricks about building highly performant web sites. He will discuss some of the latest web platform API’s focused on improving performance such as the transition API, speculation rules API and Long Animation Frames API (LoAF).

Bart Kooijman is a full stack developer and architect at Capgemini, specializing in building web-based commerce and marketing solutions using Java, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With a focus on content management, search, and web performance, Bart plays an important role in the development and optimization of three of the largest ecommerce sites in the Benelux.