Reaching the Entire UK with Matt Hobbs

Performance is always important, but that's especially true for anyone providing essential services over a wide range of connections and devices. In this episode, Matt Hobbs talks about the challenges of building sites that perform well for the entirety of the UK.

Everything that we do in terms of accessibility, in terms of web performance, in terms of content design, we have to be catering to the largest number of people possible because one thing that we can't, we can't just say, well we're not going to support X or you're not going to support Y. Because in doing so we may just be excluding a certain demographic of the UK.

A full transcript is available at: https://chasingwaterfalls.io/episodes/episode-five-with-matt-hobbs/

Links

• Matt Hobbs on Twitter
• Matt Hobbs' site
• SpeedCurve Page Speed Benchmarks
• Tammy's post on SpeedCurve's Benchmarks
• Government Digital Service
• GOV.UK Design System
• Polyfill.io
• Chrome User Experience Report
• Lighthouse
• WebPageTest
• SiteSpeed.io
• From Hackathon to Foundational Performance with Reefath Rajali
• GDS Blog
• Technology in Government blog