Michael Hladky

Chrome DevTools is a powerful addition to the developer's toolset that allows you to find and eliminate your application's performance bottlenecks. It is packed with features perfect for auditing page performance and deriving actionable insights. By visualizing data at the proper level of abstraction, it can help you pinpoint performance-related issues and set a baseline from which to start introducing improvements.

That said, knowing how to properly run performance tests on your web application is one thing, and putting those metrics to good use is another. Both aspects are critical to the overall success of the endeavor. Thus, it is crucial to understand all the ins and outs of performance data and performance tooling.

This might sound like a lot, but don't be put off! Over the course of this training, we will walk through the pitfalls and tricks of the trade of Chrome DevTools to provide you with a complete roadmap for performance analysis and optimization.

Chrome DevTools should be seen as a fount of knowledge about your application's performance that anyone can benefit from. With that realization, the best part begins: experimenting and finding the most effective ways to improve the application's speed.

High-Level Workshop Agenda

Block 1: The Browser Rendering Pipeline

• Understand how the browser processes the code you write
• Explore the runtime performance of scripting, rendering, and painting
• Minimize the work the browser needs to do

Core Web Vitals

• What is the performance score?
• LCP, Soft-LCP, INP, CLS, and other important metrics
• How to measure and improve Web Vitals

Understand the RAIL Model

• Get to know the underlying model behind modern performance metrics

Coffee Break

Block 2: Tooling

• How to read, record, and analyze flame charts
• Performance panel
• Performance Insights panel
• Performance Monitor
• Network panel
• Chrome and Microsoft Edge DevTools
• Lighthouse

AI-Assisted Performance Engineering

• How to leverage AI as a performance engineer
• Chrome DevTools MCP
• Create and use performance engineering skills

Lunch Break

Block 3: The JavaScript Event Loop

• Understand how the JavaScript VM executes code
• Learn the difference between macrotasks and microtasks
• Gain in-depth knowledge of scheduling techniques
• Control the event loop by prioritizing work
• Master single-threaded main-thread scheduling

Coffee Break

Block 4: Network

• Image optimizations
• Resource hints, including preload, prefetch, and priorities
• Bundle optimizations

CSS and DOM Performance Best Practices

• Forced reflow and layout thrashing
• CSS containment and content visibility
• Next-generation CSS features
• ResizeObserver and IntersectionObserver

Q&A Session