All Performance is Mobile Performance

Whatever performance challenges you face, mobile visitors experience it worst. Mobile connections remain slow and expensive. Wireless and satellite hops add latency that amplifies back-end slowness. Phones throttle their CPUs to squeeze out extra battery life and run complex, slow operations to free up memory that's in use by other apps.

There's an upsite, though: solving mobile front-end performance means desktop users will have good performance, too. That's important because everyone needs good performance: the stakes couldn't be higher.

In this presentation, we'll break out the latest tools for analysis, tuning, and caching. We'll talk about the changes you can make today that will improve visitor experience the most. Some changes will be in Drupal, but we'll also lean heavily on CDNs, HTTP/2, and IPv6. Finally, we'll look at the latest in "edge computing," which evolves the capabilities of CDNs (and other edge deployments) into personalization, image optimization, paywall management, and other tasks that traditionally had to activate Drupal.

Note to track chair(s): Some parts of this presentation will include updated content from Life on the Edge: CDN and HTTPS Delivery in 2017, which I presented at DrupalCon Vienna. I will have one of the co-founders of Fastly as a co-presenter, but I don't think his account is set up on this site yet for me to add him above.