A Fast Quiz by Smashing's Vitaly — providing an inside peek into how he helped optimizing the Smashing Magazine site. With prizes too.

We talk a lot about web performance, but a lot of these conversations are coming from a purely technical perspective. Most people have a gut feeling that performance is important, but exactly what influence it has on your users and your business is often overlooked.

In this talk we will not only look on this impact, but also give some practical guidance about which metrics – including Google's Core Web Vitals – we need to focus on.

A quick demo on HTTP/3, showing how it works and what that means for you!

Images have been a key part of the web for decades. Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. Just think about landing pages and product photos, feature panels and hero areas. To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon.

Image optimization, loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. In this talk, you'll learn the tips and tricks that help production sites deliver images that have optimal Largest Contentful Paint and minimum Cumulative Layout Shift.

In this interactive panel discussion, Vitaly will talk performance with our speakers, who will answer your questions. Fastest questions will be awarded prizes, so please bring your questions, be ready for some fast-paced discussion and insights, and fire away!