Scott Jehl
For over two decades, Scott has worked at the intersection of creative design and front-end technology, leading projects for some of the Web’s most iconic brands. Scott is best known for his work within the web community, having worked on large open source projects, planned and landed standard features in browsers, written for a variety of publications, and presented at many conferences around the world.
These days, he is an engineer at Squarespace in New York City, where his team oversees the performance and accessibility of millions of websites.
Scott is the creator of the Web Components Demystified online course (2024), author of Responsible Responsive Design (2014, A Book Apart), and co-author of Designing with Progressive Enhancement (2010, New Riders).
Delivering for Performance
In this talk, Scott will shed light on the tools and processes involved in delivering web performance improvements at a massive scale. Gain insight into the daily work of a web performance team in 2025, tracking metrics, identifying bottlenecks, proving out potential solutions, and carefully deploying targeted improvements to be monitored and continuously refined.
You’ll come away with tips for using metrics that support your product’s unique needs, patterns to ensure access in unreliable conditions, tricks to improve delivery speed, and a dose of excitement for the pursuit of making websites work well for the broadest audience possible.
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