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Performance Driven HTML

Mandy Michael, Staff Software Engineer Octopus Deploy

In this talk, we dive into the often underestimated power of HTML in shaping and improving the performance of our applications and websites. With the complexities of modern web development, performance often gets pushed to the back burner. But it doesn’t have to! We’ll look at how we can integrate performance into the earliest stages of development and lay a solid foundation for more performant applications.

Whether you’ve been writing HTML for 20 years or 2 years, you’ll leave this session with an understanding of how to leverage features such as resource hints and priority hints, explore the power of preload techniques and delve into strategies for improving image performance, minimizing the cumulative layout shift, and optimizing rendering efficiency.

We’ll do this all by using a technology we are already using day to day, but with a better understanding of how to leverage it more effectively! The end result will be an improved user experience and increased loading efficiency for your projects.

About Mandy Michael

Mandy is a multiple award-winning Front End Developer, now Staff Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy.

She speaks at conferences and events locally and internationally sharing her work and experiments with new and old technology.

Mandy is an avid supporter of local communities, organising and volunteering at events across Australia. She is the Founder and Organiser of Fenders a Perth meetup for Front End Developers, Director of Mixin Conf, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, a Microsoft Regional Director and in its inaugural year, in 2018, was named one of the Top 20 Women in Tech in Western Australia.