Only sex pests and losers wear these fucking glasses

🦅 New leaderboard: 230+ US Government websites ranked by Core Web Vitals performance 🏛️

ARPA-H takes #1 with a 900ms LCP. CWV pass rate is 69.3%.

Biggest jump: National Council on Disability climbed 200 spots.

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Fair enough, but damn, why were you still posting on that Nazi website anyway?

🇬🇧⚡ If you live in the UK: Council websites are faster than you’d think. 88.8% pass Core Web Vitals.

Here’s a new Website Speed Leaderboard report, grab a cuppa and see how your council ranks here 👇

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These are cool! Please use or display ASAP

Good practical advice, I’ve definitely mis-labelled a few navigations here or there

Two devs texting: "Did you update the cache headers?" "umm, yeah… maybe…" "I got something to tell you." Below, a UX Rating chart nosedives from green to red. Two shocked emojis watch.

A team ships a "small" cache header tweak on a Tuesday. All good, right? Oh my sweet summer child.

A week later, the UX Rating chart tells a different story 🫠

The worst perf regressions quietly lose you users.

UX Rating, available in Calibre RUM 👇
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Thanks for the shout @tunetheweb.com ✨

I am *SO* enjoying the technology information from HTTPArchive, really enjoying it in the leaderboards.

TIL:

Australian government websites LOVE Drupal, and… they're super fast overall.

Photograph of a Tesla Nazi wagon with number plate Elonsy

Guaranteed, this guy sucks

Marinated artichoke should be in more sandwiches 😋

Save Mt Macedon snow gums Mobilise! Resist! Transform!

The VIC Gov has approved destruction of rare snow gums on the summit of Mt Macedon so people can get a view of Melbourne.

Take action here and help to #SaveMacedonSnowGums

www.melbournefoe.org.au/save_mt_mace...

Huge congratulations to Hungary and all of the EU that were destabilised by Orbán and fascists of his ilk.

It’s a new day.

Damn I was hoping it would be Monday

Photograph of three Teebs records on a wooden console next to a loudspeaker

@henrihelvetica.bsky.social good morning

Amazing 🥲

SPDY STREAM 029 with Ben Schwarz of Calibre YouTube video by Henri Helvetica

✨ SPDY STREAM

Tune into the live stream tomorrow

@henrihelvetica.bsky.social & Me, discussing web perf tooling, Calibre’s new features and more!

YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/KHzQdtu...
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/74456...

📆 Thursday April 9th/Friday April 10th
⏰ 6pm EDT / 8am AEST

Screenshot from Calibre's Airline Booking Website Speed Leaderboard. Only 3.7% of websites in the airline sector pass core web vitals.

You are *not* imagining it — Airline websites really are the slowest and most frustrating to use.

Only 3.7% pass Google's Core Web Vitals. For comparison, 56.5% of news sites clear the same bar.

See how your favourite airline ranks:
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may your snacks be plentiful and your rest restorative

It’s quite frustrating when competitors fire up the Xerox machine and duplicate projects I spent a long time on. One in particular has done it time and time again, absolutely zero class.

A detailed digital illustration of a Casio F-91W digital watch on a dark background, showing the time 09:25:38 on Saturday the 4th. The watch features the classic black resin case and band with blue accent lines and the iconic WR (water resist) badge.

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.

https://www.terrygodier

Thanks to building a tech centred product (and the browsers in use) I’ve been able to write CSS with nesting for a while now. Feels gooood

Screenshot from the Website Speed Leaderboard Project showing logos for Chrome User Experience Report, HTTP Archive and Calibre

New: Website Speed Leaderboards now shows which web framework each site is built with — powered by @httparchive.org technology data

calibreapp.com/tools/website-speed-leaderboard

Our AWS services have gone dark in Bahrain.

This is fun! Nice stuff 🙇‍♂️

My BS meter was going off like a frog in a sock

yeah I'm not gonna let a dipshit ruin my vibe ever. it's a cool demo, great. happy for em'. Doesn't do anything for me personally.

Not specifically the "are you human checks" (geez, I hate these, and hate that I have to use one), but definitely the "sign up to newsletter" or other prompts that distract users and ruin conversions.

Pretty negative! and worst: most companies forget about them, because they dismissed em'!

Real User Monitoring: Focus, depth, and clarity from real browser sessions | Calibre Blog Calibre RUM captures Core Web Vitals from real browser sessions, giving you depth and clarity. Available now on all plans.

💌 I wrote about some of my motivations for building a Real User Monitoring product in a crowded and competitive space

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Picture of Katla synthesizer

This beautiful looking synth has sides and knobs made of Icelandic lava rock

genki.is/katla