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...

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...

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...

The video of my talk from the Performance Now conference in Amsterdam was posted today. #perfnow

This Friday afternoon I'll be at the Boston Web Performance meetup giving my talk on "Performance Mistakes". If you are in the Boston area and interested in web performance, join us! www.meetup.com/boston-web-p...

If you missed @paulcalvano.bsky.social at @perfnow.bsky.social, and happen to be in the Boston area next week, he'll be speaking at the Boston Web Performance December meetup. Sign up on meetup: www.meetup.com/boston-web-p... December 6th ∘ 4:30pm ∘ Akamai HQ in Cambridge. #webperf #perfmatters

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...

Great start to #perfnow this year with @tammyeverts.bsky.social and @csswizardry.com ! For those of you looking for the general web perf starter pack, here it is! Lots of new folks since last time I shared it go.bsky.app/RVWSVqe

The all new performance chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac written by Jevgenija Zigisova and @inesakrap.bsky.social almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/perf...

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/

Took 2 mins at #PerfNow to talk about the RUM Community Group in W3C for anyone doing RUM. It's free and easy to join if you're interested! www.w3.org/community/ru...

Yesterday during my #perfnow talk, I mentioned the Web Performance Slack. If you’d like to join the Slack, use this link before Nov 25: join.slack.com/t/webperf…