Google has announced that it will introduce the “Page Experience” as a ranking factor for its search engine in May. This particularly includes website performance. So if you want to ensure that your pages appear prominently in the search result pages in the future, you should make sure that they load quickly. There are of course other reasons to pay attention to website performance. If, for example, a page loads too long, the audience clicks somewhere else.

In six lectures, the c’t on February 9th, what you have to pay attention to when it comes to web performance. Martin Splitt, Developer Advocate at Google, will show in his lecture what Google sees as good performance, keyword: Core Web Vitals. Pictures offer a lot of optimization potential. Sia Karamalegos explains how to take full advantage of this.

Detect and release brakes Christian Schaefer presents two tools with which You can try out any number of front-end adaptations at the speed of light: Chrome Devtools and CloudFlare Workers. Benjamin Kluck and Peter Mösenthin are about caches and other means to increase performance, such as the question of which max-age should be used where and how service workers help with performance and availability.

Jessica In her lecture, Lyschik goes into the many possibilities that WordPress offers for optimization, but also thinks outside the box. Your presentation also helps users of other systems to detect and eliminate performance brakes. Peter Kröner will demonstrate how browsers optimize their JavaScript parsing, which strategies are used in the context of runtime optimization and how developers can work with the browser.

Lectures are recorded The c’t takes place online, we record the lectures. So if you miss a talk, for example because he or she has to look after the homeschooling of the children in addition to the home office – no problem, the lectures can be accessed afterwards. Details about the workshops and talks can be found in the agenda on the c’t homepage . Tickets for the conference cost 279, for the workshops 499 euros. Combined tickets for the combination of conference and workshops cost 699 Euro.

We will pick up the face-to-face event from 22. until 23. November 2021 after. Then in the Komed event center in Cologne the whole range of frontend development will be on the agenda over two days and three tracks. (jo)