Paul Calvano

@paulcalvano.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 6pm the @nywebperf.com meetup is running another in person "Meet for Speed" session. We take requests from attendees for sites to do a webperf analysis on. @fastly.com is hosting us at their office in Union Square. Have a site you'd like us to analyze? bit.ly/meet4speed-s...

NY Web Performance@nywebperf.com · 7mo ago

Join us for a Meet4SPEED session THIS THURSDAY, Jan 22 @ 6PM, in the @fastly.com Manhattan office. Learn how to optimize sites with us! RSVP: www.meetup.com/web-performa... Have a site you'd like analyzed? Submit here: bit.ly/meet4speed-s... #webperformance #wpo #meetup #nyc

My contribution to this years Web Performance Calendar is all about Third Parties and Single Points of Failure (SPOF). Based on @httparchive.org data I found that 67% of websites have at least 1 render blocking third party - and quite a few of them are SPOF risks!

Stoyan Stefanov @stoyan.me · 8mo ago

Web Performance Calendar day 29 with @paulcalvano.bsky.social's research on 3rd parties, SPOF, and the need to test and monitor these. 67% of sites out there have at least 1 render-blocking external dependency. calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/third-p...

New @httparchive.org analysis about sites adding AI Bots and Crawlers to their robots.txt files. While robots.txt doesn't "block" bots by itself, it's a clear demonstration of the preferences of site owners and the sentiment towards AI crawlers on today's web. paulcalvano.com/2025-08-21-a...

AI Bots and Robots.txt

There’s been a lot of discussion lately around AI crawlers and bots, which are used to train LLMs and/or fetch content on behalf of their users. In the past few weeks I’ve seen blog posts about the am...

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This Thursday at 6pm the NYC WebPerf Meetup is running another in person "Meet for Speed" session. We'll be taking requests from attendees for sites to do a web performance analysis on. www.meetup.com/web-performa... Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - bit.ly/meet4speed-s...

[In-person] Meet for SPEED, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Join up for an opportunity to work together on optimizing our sites. Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - [https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit](https://bit.ly/

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Tonight at 6pm the NYC WebPerf Meetup is running another in person "Meet for Speed" session. We'll be taking requests from attendees for sites to do a web performance analysis on. Fastly will be hosting us at their NYC office. www.meetup.com/web-performa...

[In-person] Meet for SPEED, Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Join up for an opportunity to work together on optimizing our sites. Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - [https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit](https://bit.ly/

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Last week I gave a talk at the #PerfNow conference titled “Performance Mistakes”. I started off explaining a bit about Etsy’s blameless culture, and how it’s ok to make mistakes. Then I shared 17 common #webperf mistakes using @httparchive.org data, with examples. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/pe...

Performance Now '24- Performance Mistakes - Final.pdf

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Fellow #perfnow attendee, the PerfPlanet advent calendar is looking for articles for the 2024 edition. Please come talk to me if you’re considering an idea for a post but you’re not sure and you need a second opinion calendar.perfplanet.com/contribute/

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