tl;dr:"Today I'll share some of the software engineering soft skills I've learned from my first 10 years on Google Chrome, where I am a Senior Staff Engineering Manager." Addy covers topics such as learning new things, technical complexity, design docs, & more.
tl;dr:The Chrome team are in development of "badging", a method of identifying sites that are built in "a way that makes them slow" by looking at historical load latencies. In the future, such information may be communicated to users.
tl;dr:Download & execution time are primary bottlenecks for loading scripts in 2019. "Aim for a small bundle of synchronous (inline) scripts for your above-the-fold content with one or more deferred scripts for the rest of the page."
tl;dr:(1) Lighthouse supports Performance Budgeting (2) Native image and iframe lazy-loading comes to the web (3) Google Fonts now supports font-display as a query parameter.
tl;dr:New loading attribute for images and iframes helps content load quicker, reduces network data usage and reduces memory usage. It should be shipped as part of Chrome 75.