performance.wow() 2024

As I write this blog post I am sat in an AirBnB in Utrecht reflecting on two incredibly inspiring days at performance.now() 2024. I was not only fortunate to attend but to be asked to talk, and it was a real privilege to get the chance to update the attendees on all our recent work updating the performance panel with a myriad of new features.

Being present at this conference is an energy boost; a reminder that I am very fortunate to work on a tool that many people use on a daily basis to help them get their work done. It is an absolute privilege to be the person responsible for the (mostly technical) direction of the performance tools in DevTools and the desire to continue working to improve further is only heightened by spending time with our users face to face.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended and who spoke to me or other Googlers with their feedback - both the good and the bad - on what we can do better. I joined Google and the DevTools team because I'd spent ten years using the DevTools daily through from university to my first few tech jobs and even after nearly five years the motivation to keep improving our tools so that everyone can improve their effectiveness is very strong. If you didn't get a chance to speak to us face to face, you can always file a bug or feature request to bring it to our attention. I promise that a human (most likely me!) reads all the performance tooling related submissions we get.

If you are interested in performance on the web, I can't recommend performance.now() enough. I have realised that hyper-focused conferences are the most impactful and this is a great example. You don't have to familiar with performance either; the community is encouraging, friendly and wants to welcome folks in and help them gain the expertise to level up the web for everyone.

If you'd like a deeper summary of all the talks, Stuart McMillan's blog post is a fantastic read.