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Web Performance at PageSpeed.ONE FrontKon Conference. Prague based. 🇨🇿

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PageSpeed.ONE @pagespeedone.bsky.social · 5h
A slow website costs you up to 25% of conversions. Why choose PageSpeed.ONE PLUS? — Clear data instead of guesswork — Catch downtime before your clients do — Gives you the data to convince leadership Get a free 1-month trial 👇 pagespeed.one/en/app/new?t...
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Setting up monitoring for a new website | PageSpeed.ONE
Enter the URL for your website's homepage and we'll run speed tests.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 2h
Weather around Prague is still ready to ride my bike. 🚴‍♀️🍂
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A five-minute speech I spent two weeks preparing. Because putting together a 30-minute talk isn't a problem. But preparing a short, punchy, funny intro for your own conference... and keeping it under five minutes? That’s a nightmare! 😅 So, hopefully, Mr. Kout and I pulled it off at #FrontKon.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That was… #FrontKon. I'm tired, but happy.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FrontKon day one. Workshops.
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PageSpeed.ONE @pagespeedone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Want a lightning-fast website? — Practical technical workflows — Case studies and the impact of site speed on revenue — Real-world optimization insights The best of the performance world right in your inbox. 👇https://pagespeed.one/en/newsletter
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is Bluesky version. 😅
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026
I'm super excited to attend and speak at FrontKon#26 next week in Prague! There are still tickets left for the event and for my accessibility testing workshop! www.frontkon.tech
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FrontKon#26 – Tech Conference in Prague
Full-day live conference of the Frontendisti.cz community
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What not to miss at #FrontKon 2026 in Prague. First time in English with @tej.as, @matuzo.at and many others great speakers. Fingers crossed to the team. Last week is hard! 🤞 michalek.blog/blog/frontko...
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FrontKon 2026: what not to miss · Martin Michálek
Next Tuesday, hundreds of people who build the web meet at O2 Universum in Prague. Two panels on agentic development and the future of IT work, AI leaking into the whole schedule, and four English wor...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Czech-style weekend activities.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m honored to be speaking at @perfnow.nl My topic: Why is website speed so hard to sell—and what can we learn from sales, psychology, and the irrational way people make decisions? perfnow.nl
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performance.now(); 19th and 20th of November 2026, Amsterdam
On 19th and 20th of November 2026, the web performance community will gather at performance.now() in Amsterdam to discuss today’s most important web performance insights.
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PageSpeed.ONE @pagespeedone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Want a lightning-fast website? A monthly newsletter full of web performance: 👉🏻 Technical tips and best practices 👉🏻 Case studies and business impact 👉🏻 Practical insights from our experience Subscribe to the PageSpeed.ONE newsletter👇🏻 pagespeed.one/en/newsletter
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm working on my English. You know… I'm old, no talent for languages… 😅 I've tried everything possible. One thing really works for me – @italkioffical.bsky.social with live teachers, with iTalki Plus, AI lessons based on data from live lessons. What a great idea and execution!
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks, now I understand.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting, maybe I will try it this year. I'm into WebPerf and more business vs. UX vs. technology. Not only technical guy. Do you accept only code-containing articles or more wide topics? I can't find content guidelines in the form.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agree, but this this mismatch according how to use metric: People think: – Site Speed = Lighthouse score Reality – Site Speed = RUM or CrUX data – Speed Optimisation Metric = Lighthouse Score
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've continued my investigation into how "Delay JS execution" fakes Lighthouse scores. New piece on my personal blog: – which WP plugins ship it (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Delayed, Perfmatters…) – what their own docs admit – how to spot it in the source. michalek.blog/blog/delay-a...
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Delaying all JavaScript is not optimisation, it just moves the problem · Martin Michálek
One checkbox in a caching plugin can lift a Lighthouse score by tens of points without making a site faster for anyone. Here is which WordPress plugins ship that checkbox, what their own documentation...
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performance.now() conference @perfnow.nl · 22/09/2026
Oh dear, speakers are being announced in carload lots! Today we add bsky.app/profile/clif... about Core Mobile Vitals bsky.app/profile/jpam... as our second MC bsky.app/profile/mach... about selling web performance Come join them at perfnow.nl
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performance.now(); 19th and 20th of November 2026, Amsterdam
On 19th and 20th of November 2026, the web performance community will gather at performance.now() in Amsterdam to discuss today’s most important web performance insights.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, what I eat makes a difference to me a lot. Strict diet (feeling hungry sometimes is cool:)) + moving body how I like. But I would like to lost 3-5 kg more and it's starting to be difficult. :-D
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How are you loosing your weight if you do it for this? Any posts about it? (I've lost 8 kg from January, but still not finised and looking for other tips.)
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#AI is turning the developer world upside down. Discussion is essential, and talks offer only one perspective. That’s why we’re adding two panel discussions to #FrontKon: 🤖 Agentic development in practice 👩‍💻 The present and future of work in IT Looking forward! www.frontkon.tech
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Team building of the core team @pagespeedone.bsky.social. Beautiful weekend!
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
An interesting move. As part of the #CrUX data suite, Google will also measure technical and UX metrics related to ads. Finally, an effort to decipher just how much ads weigh down websites (including Google’s own).
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks for adding this one. no-AI block are great brain food for everybody. For me, those are mainly paper books. :)
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've written a blogpost on this topic: „AI restart: five questions the developer community has to answer” michalek.blog/blog/ai-rest...
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AI restart: five questions the developer community has to answer · Martin Michálek
Agents made development faster and a lot more fun, but they also multiplied the mental load, opened repositories to non-developers and put pressure on jobs. Whether to use AI is settled. How to use it...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks for adding these two examples.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Software development is in the (AI) crisis. Questions coming into my mind: 1) When LLMs write code, what does it mean to be the developer? 2) Should devs write code? 3) Are devs becoming (agents) managers? 4) What is happening with focus, deep work and learning? Do you see another questions?
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The percentile gives you the headline. The histogram gives you the diagnosis. CrUX histograms are now available in PageSpeed.ONE Monitoring 4.14: pagespeed.one/en/changelog... #WebPerformance #CoreWebVitals #CrUX
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Version 4.14: Histogram in Domains and a More Sensitive Watchdog | PageSpeed.ONE
Release 4.14 introduces Chrome UX Report histograms in the Domains report, a more sensitive Watchdog, the phase-out of FREE monitoring, and various website enhancements.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Multiple peaks can reveal distinct groups of user experiences. They may point to different technical conditions—for example, cached vs. uncached visits. One metric value can’t show you these patterns. A histogram can.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The 75th percentile is useful—but it hides part of the story. If LCP p75 is 2.10 seconds, 25% of user experiences are slower than that. The histogram shows the users behind the number.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#SiteSpeed is not one number. Different people can have very different experiences on the same website. That’s exactly what the #CrUX histogram helps you see. 🧵
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@bradfrost.com in Prague. This is big. And great! luma.com/prjctr-s8ch
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Prague. Brad Frost: AI and Design Systems · Luma
Projector Community Prague (by Projector Institute) together with MSD and UX Asociace invite you to an event with amazing Brad Frost. Brad Frost is the author…
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We just published two new workshops for #FrontKon conference: 1) Karpathy LLM wiki www.frontkon.tech/events/front... 2) Development with local LLMs: privacy, performance and practice www.frontkon.tech/events/front... See you?
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FrontKon
Full-day live conference of the Frontendisti.cz community
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bike time. 🚴
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Has your INP worsened since May? ⚠️ The Facebook Pixel may be to blame. AT PageSpeed.ONE, we’re already seeing its growing click-processing workload hurt responsiveness on several client websites. #WebPerf #PageSpeed #PageSpeedONE Context: www.linkedin.com/posts/erwinh...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A Lighthouse score can be improved without making a website faster. That’s not a Lighthouse bug. It’s what happens when we turn a diagnostic signal into a business target. Measure real users. Use Lighthouse to investigate—not to declare victory. Article: pagespeed.one/en/blog/ligh... #WebPerf
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We turned off a plugin that was "speeding up" a client's site. — Lighthouse: 95 → 60 — Core Web Vitals: unchanged It wasn't optimising the site. It was optimising the test. We've found and documented third case of "hacking" Lighthouse score. My article: pagespeed.one/en/blog/ligh...
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The Illusion of Fast Websites: Gaming the Lighthouse Score | PageSpeed.ONE
Plugins like WP-Optimize, WP Rocket, or Website Speedy can boost your Lighthouse score by deferring JavaScript. However, they do not enhance user speed – and sometimes, even testing tools catch on.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We turned off a plugin that was "speeding up" a client's site. — Lighthouse: 95 → 60 — Core Web Vitals: unchanged It wasn't optimising the site. It was optimising the test. We've found and documented third case of "hacking" Lighthouse score. My article: pagespeed.one/en/blog/ligh...
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The Illusion of Fast Websites: Gaming the Lighthouse Score | PageSpeed.ONE
Plugins like WP-Optimize, WP Rocket, or Website Speedy can boost your Lighthouse score by deferring JavaScript. However, they do not enhance user speed – and sometimes, even testing tools catch on.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Judging by the interest in workshops at #FrontKon, the entire dev world has switched from AI-first to AI-only. There are still places available: www.frontkon.tech/en/events/fr... We'll list two more topics. Which ones would interest you?
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Workshopy | FrontKon
Celodenní živá konference komunity Frontendisti.cz
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unpopular opinion: Think about Elon Musk what you want, but… His apps are getting really good in last months. Looking at X (comparing with Bluesky) or Cursor.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
„If you lead something, you are a captain. A short-sighted captain“ I've written a piece about leading teams, people and companies. michalek.blog/blog/short-s...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reading a Performance Timeline by @nucliweb.net. This would be great for people who still have issues with Performance Timeline in Chrome. I love the form of this site. perf.reviews/profile-guide
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Reading a Performance Profile: Field Guide
An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Test your real site speed here: pagespeed.one/en/app/insig...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We know at least three well-known optimization plugins that game the Lighthouse score. Site owners think their website got faster. It didn't. Only the number did. Real users see zero improvement. Come on. Don't buy this. Measure your site speed with data from real users. #WebPerf #CoreWebVitals
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Your Lighthouse 100 might be fake. There are WordPress (or Shopify) plugins built to fake a higher score. And zero real speed gain. Lighthouse tests 1 page, 1 device, 1 load. It's not real-world data. Test your real website speed → pagespeed.one/en/app/insig... #PageSpeedONE #PageSpeed
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Love these Czech cottages in the middle of the forest. You can rent them and escape the city for the weekend.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Vacation could be great! If you weren't there with me… 😅 My newest post is titled "Vacation: A Guide for Workaholics". michalek.blog/guide/vacati...
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Vacation: A Guide for Workaholics · Martin Michálek · Web & Performance
Working on vacation never worked for me, and neither did lying on a beach. What did: mild chaos, active travel, a team that runs without me, and a few rituals for switching off. A field report from a ...
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Shopify: "For every 100 milliseconds slower a store loads, conversion tends to be about 3.5% lower." We have two new #WebPerformance optimisation services: 🛍️ Shopify: pagespeed.one/en/shopify 🏷️ Google Tag Manager: pagespeed.one/en/gtm Want to talk? pagespeed.one/en/call
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Shopify Speed Optimization | PageSpeed.ONE
Shopify is fast, but customizations and templates often slow it down. We analyze your store and restore green Core Web Vitals and conversions.
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
How can one survive vacation when they are more or less a workaholic? (I'm writing an article on this topic, but I'd love to hear your tips too.)
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Martin Michalek @machal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Dev Workshops are coming to #FrontKon 👩‍💻 Manuel Matuzovic – accessible React @kettanaito – React testing with Vitest @BleedingDev – AI in dev without the fluff Michal Matuška – Chrome DevTools deep dive In-person, hands-on. Prague, 5 Oct 2026. www.frontkon.tech/events/front...
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Workshops | FrontKon
Full-day live conference of the Frontendisti.cz community
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