Schedule

Talks at We Love Speed2024
TimeRoom 1Room 2Workshop 1Workshop 2
08:50 Attendees’ welcome
09:30 Conference Opening, room 1
09:45

So, speed, is it worth it?

in French by Lisa Pasqualini , Émilie Wilhelm
25 minutesRoom 1

Web performance is more than just a technical issue. It has become an essential strategic lever for companies seeking to maximize conversions and improve sales. Come and discover at this conference the real impact of webperf, and how the speed…

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HTMX, the new asset for your SSR projects

in French by Ewen Quimerc‘h
25 minutesRoom 2

HTMX was the talk of the town in 2024. Discover, through real examples, how this library can improve both the user experience and the performance of an SSR site, thanks to techniques such as partial page rendering (server-side rendered components),…

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10:20 Switch
10:25

Performance Is Good for Brains!

by Tammy Everts
45 minutesRoom 1

User experience and web performance are among the best indicators of online business outcomes. Faster websites have happier users. Those happy users visit longer and spend more. But why is that? By looking back at the history of UX, web…

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React / Next vs INP: the clash

in French by Jean-Pierre Vincent
45 minutesRoom 2

Popular JS frameworks are constantly displaying their benchmarks to prove that they are fast, sometimes even better than the native DOM! But the arrival of INP and my 5 years of accelerating these stacks for my clients show that on…

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11:20 Switch
11:25 Coffee Break and Workshops 🧰

[Fasterize] Webperf Clinic: unleash the potential of your web performance

in French by Nicolas Hodin , Mouloud Azzedine
25 minutesWorkshop 1

Sit down with one of our Webperf experts and let’s take a look at your site’s performance. This Webperf Clinic is the perfect opportunity to benefit from a quick, high-quality webperf diagnosis. Nicolas & Mouloud will help you identify your…

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[Scaleflex] Scaleflex’s secrets:

in French by Julian de Maestri
25 minutesWorkshop 2

Our CTO will reveal a less explored aspect of webperformance: the backend. He’ll explain how our expertise in images and videos, those heavy files crucial to online conversion, has enabled us to scale our infrastructure to serve larger and larger…

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11:50 Time to start again!
11:55

We Love LoAF & INP

by Karlijn Löwik , Erwin Hofman
45 minutesRoom 1

Let us show you how much fun it can be to improve INP! With memes, technical deep dives, and revolutionary solutions in RUM + Chrome’s new API LoAF, we’ll help you tame those first and third parties!

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Performance Debugging with DevTools: A Practical Deep Dive

by Umar Hansa
45 minutesRoom 2

Struggling with website performance issues? In this practical session, you’ll learn how to use Chrome DevTools to fix website performance bottlenecks. We’ll cover essential workflows and techniques, including analyzing runtime performance, optimizing code delivery, and other tips and tricks. Through…

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12:50 Switch
12:55 Lunch Break 🍱 and Workshops 🧰

[Dynatrace] Optimize the essentials

in French by Guilherme Thompson
25 minutesWorkshop 1

The Dynatrace Opportunity Insights application introduces a novel approach to improving web performance, with a focus on understanding the impact on sales and user experience of slowness or errors. Using causal AI and real user data (RUM), Opportunity Insights identifies…

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[Braincracking] Debugging JavaScript Webperf

in French by Jean-Pierre Vincent
25 minutesWorkshop 2

Getting started with Chrome Dev Tools’ intimidating profiler to look for issues related to JavaScript responsiveness and over-utilization. We’ll start with a classic JS site, then move on to high-level JS frameworks like React, which need to be complemented by…

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13:20 Switch
13:25 Lunch Break 🍱 and Workshops 🧰

[Datadog] Enhance Your Web Applications from your frontend to your backend systems

in French by Nazim Saouli
25 minutesWorkshop 1

As modern applications grow increasingly complex with microservices, micro-frontends, and rapid CI/CD releases, ensuring optimal performance and a seamless user experience becomes a challenge. Discover how to confidently monitor, measure, and optimize your application’s performance across distributed systems to deliver…

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[Google] Google Performance Tracing Party

by Barry Pollard
25 minutesWorkshop 2

Join Barry from the Google Chrome team for a group “Tracing party”, where we profile some example websites using Google Tools to identify performance issues. Bring example websites and an eager mind please!

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13:55 Time to start again!
14:05

Performance Monitoring: What and what to measure?

in French by Thibaut Sabot , Jeremie Pereira
45 minutesRoom 1

We know that a high-performance website offers many benefits, but how do we know that it is performant? We’ll look at what performance indicators to measure, how to do it and what it really means. Thanks to our experience on…

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How I made the web more responsive

by Andrea Verlicchi
45 minutesRoom 2

The new Google metric “Interaction to Next Paint (INP)” https://web.dev/articles/inp, which measures how responsive a site is responsive to user inputs, has become effective as a Core Web Vital in March. By analyzing 3 case studies from my work, we…

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15:00 Switch
15:05

Boavizta — State of the art in assessing the environmental impact of content websites

in French by Youen Chéné
25 minutesRoom 1

A presentation to bring you up to date on the methods and tools available to assess the environmental impact of content websites (and not necessarily to measure it, as we always say at Boavizta). What tools and methods exist? What…

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Web Performance Testing

by Estela Franco
25 minutesRoom 2

Ensuring that our projects deliver a delightful web performance experience is key to engaging our visitors and improving our business metrics. Testing key web performance metrics during development and before shipping code to production is critical to avoid giving our…

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15:35 Switch
15:40 Coffee Break and Workshops 🧰

[leboncoin tech] Do you really know leboncoin?

in French by Thibaut Sabot , Jeremie Pereira
25 minutesWorkshop 1

Come and discover what goes on behind the scenes at leboncoin, France’s favorite classifieds site. Anecdotes and secrets shared!

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[Atanar Technologies] CDNs can be optimized too!

in French by Damien Wetzel
25 minutesWorkshop 2

CDNs improve website performance and resilience. After initial configuration, it’s essential to analyze logs regularly to identify further optimizations, such as management of poorly hidden content and image optimization. This approach, in collaboration with the site team, enables problems to…

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16:05 Switch
16:15

Beyond the basics, pushing the limits of webperf

by Tim Vereecke
45 minutesRoom 1

In this deep dive talk, we’ll skip the basics and look at some advanced tuning techniques to make a modern website lightning fast. Using plenty of graphs and data, we’ll show how these solutions have helped make scalemates.com the fastest…

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How browsers REALLY load Web pages

by Robin Marx
45 minutesRoom 2

When browsers load a web page, there’s a LOT going on under the hood. By examining many different waterfalls, this talk shows how to diagnose them using advanced tools and how to influence their loading. You’ll leave with a better…

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17:05 Switch
17:10

Test your webperf knowledge with our interactive quiz!

in French by Anthony Barré , Nicolas Hodin
25 minutesRoom 1

Grab your phones and take our quiz on a range of issues: network, HTTP protocol, browser API, image optimization, webperf metrics… You’ll have fun reviewing and learning about webperf.

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Mais que fait la police?

in French by Eroan Boyer
25 minutesRoom 2

Fonts are an essential part of the modern web. Easy to integrate, they help forge a site’s visual identity, reflecting its values and positioning, whether dynamic, contemporary, serious or more informal. However, our beloved webfonts conceal a more painful reality:…

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17:40 Switch
17:45 Closing (Room 1)
17:55 A last drink?
19:30 Closing