Page Speed Performance (and how it helps your career)
summary
Built a consumer Next14 app router site tom.com in under six months (private launch ~3 months, public by 6) and wins traffic by optimizing Core Web Vitals measured via Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights in CI/CD. Focuses on LCP, TBT and INP, removes extra nodes (1,347 DOM elements reported, instituted “save a div” reviews), and achieves ~60 mobile Lighthouse score versus Zillow ~37 and competitors 36–43, which correlates with rising organic traffic (~12.5k) and clearer hiring/interview stories.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:59Evolving front-end complexity
- 5:29Why page speed performance matters
- 7:56Tomo’s real estate site case study
- 14:54Career advice and reframing work
- 17:21Writing code vs business impact
- 19:27Storytelling in interviews
- 22:35Performance metrics flywheel
- 24:41Constraints as strength in UX
- 26:08Tactics for performance optimization
- 28:55Recap and career takeaways
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