Although we do our stuff in Delphi, I know a lot of us dabble in web apps too.

via Google Chrome Developers

Originally shared by Paul Lewis

There have been some great app performance resources surfacing recently, so I thought it would make sense to do a roundup.

I’ve recently seen apps whose performance is being crushed by large & expensive paints, extra layouts, bad event decoupling or too many network requests. They are all fixable items, and Chrome’s DevTools and tracing tool both do a great job of showing you what’s going on under the hood.

Web Performance Power Tool: HTTP Archive (HAR)

A rundown of the HAR file and how you can use it to diagnose the network side of your application, with Ilya Grigorik and Peter Lubbers.

Article: http://www.igvita.com/2012/08/28/web-performance-power-tool-http-archive-har/

Video: Make The Web Fast – The HAR Show: Capturing and Analyzing performance data with HTTP Archive format

Wait, DevTools could do THAT?

A fantastic presentation by Ilya Grigorik on Chrome’s DevTools

Video: Wait, Chrome Dev Tools could do THAT?

Notes: http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/#1

Progressive jpegs: a new best practice

Ann Robson explains how we can all reduce our apps’ bandwidth consumption by making use of progressive jpegs

Article: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new-best-practice/

Structural and Sampling (JavaScript) Profiling in Google Chrome