I'm increasingly convinced that only browsers can change web developer behaviour -- the current situation is untenable: either we fix this, or the idea of "having a job making websites" will become an anachronism.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/996195317493129216 …
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Replying to @slightlylate
Developer-authored JavaScript is definitely a problem. Third party scripts and pixels (for analytics and tracking), and bad ads seem to be significant issues as well. Thinking browser makers can help here.
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Replying to @davidbrunelle
I'd stop harping on first-party code and focus on 3p code if I started seeing partners come to us with functional 1p experiences. Thus far, 1p is enough to sink you if you're doing "modern frontend development".
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Replying to @slightlylate
First-party seems like a much harder problem. You're fighting against the js ecosystem, how companies budget/ hire/ prioritize, how developers are trained, etc...
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Replying to @davidbrunelle @slightlylate
Now I'm going to be noodling on this all day
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Replying to @davidbrunelle
First-party *should* be easier: it's a straightforward agency issue. Promote developers on a site-performance-weighted basis. You launched a new feature? Great! You made the site faster in a growth market? TAKE MY MONEY.
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Replying to @slightlylate
You're making assumptions about incentive structures in development organizations and that growth markets are priorities for all companies.
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Replying to @davidbrunelle @slightlylate
My experience also tells me your arguments carryore weight in *engineering* orgs. But not *marketing* orgs. Web things built by agencies/ vendors are often built to please stakeholders, not users. The problem is (at least) as much cultural as technical.
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Replying to @davidbrunelle
Definitionally, growth is interesting to businesses. I'm not saying that your growth market has to be BRIC countries, just that the org needs to shift to pay for performance (literally) in whatever markets you *do* care about.
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And yeah, the "stakeholder not user" thing is the same agency issue that most Enterprise software suffers from: the people who buy do not use.
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Replying to @slightlylate @davidbrunelle
it's also harder than i expected to run a/b tests which speed things up and increase revenue!
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