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10 April 2024

⚡ 149: Don’t get scammed on web performance

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#### Editor’s note
 
There’s a cautionary tale in this issue, warning of easy web performance wins through third party plugins and tools promising vast improvements with very little work. We know that very few things in life come for free, and this is true for web performance. But in a field so heavily relying on metrics, charts and data, how could they be lying?
 
As much as we use data to back up theories, demonstrate proof of concept, numbers only tell a partial story. Lived experience > data points.
 
Karolina
 
 
 
 
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# Articles  
 
Example test where the PSI score is almost twice as high as the Lighthouse score for the same page. We blurred the screenshots for privacy reasons, but the content looks totally different as well.
 
### [Don’t get scammed by fake performance experts and apps](https://performance.shopify.com/blogs/blog/don-t-get-scammed-by-fake-performance-experts-and-apps)
 
[Mateusz Krzeszowiak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateusz-krzeszowiak/)
Thought you were getting a performance quick fix? Learn how the team at Shopify exposed hacks to fake a higher Lighthouse scores, which had zero positive effect on user experience.
 
 
 
# Tools  
 
A higher ELO score indicates a better aggregate performance in the rater study. We can observe that jpegli at 2.8 BPP received a higher ELO rating than libjpeg-turbo at 3.7 BPP, a bitrate 32 % higher than Jpegli's.
 
### [Introducing Jpegli: a new JPEG coding library](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli-new-jpeg-coding-library.html)
 
[Zoltan Szabadka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zolt%C3%A1n-szabadka-0043845/), [Martin Bruse](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oortcloud/?originalSubdomain=se) and [Jyrki Alakuijala](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyrkialakuijala/)
Learn more about a new Google Open Source project, Jpegli, is a JPEG coding library claiming a high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio improvement.
 
Performance Panel in Chrome Dev Tools showing the bottom-up view
 
### [Goodbye JS Profiler, profiling CPU with the Performance panel](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/profiling-cpu)
 

[Jecelyn Yeen](https://jec.fish/) & [Nancy Li](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangxinyu-li/)

The JavaScript Profiler panel is going away in Chrome 124. Find out how to use the Performance panel to profile Node.js CPU performance in the future versions.
 
### [web-vitals.js 4.0](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals/blob/v4/CHANGELOG.md)
 
If you are using the web vitals library, there are a few significant and breaking changes in the recent releases, including depreciating onFID, and adding INP breakdown.
 
 
 
# Courses, Talks & Podcasts  
 
Promotional image for the podcast featuring Google logo, search box with 'Search Off the Record' text and epispde title
 
### [Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdcKuo-N3kU&ab_channel=GoogleSearchCentral)
 

[John Mueller](https://johnmu.com/), [L](http://)[izzi Sassman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/okaylizzi/) & [Rick Viscomi](https://rviscomi.dev/)

Tune in to find out why Core Web Vitals are an accessibility issue and how to use them to find out if your site is preventing the user from completing their journey.

 
 
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