Progressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
An entertaining 2016 talk about the constraints that mobile devices operate under to “deliver the web experience”. They are fighting “the laws of physics” every step of the way.
Improve a phone’s performance - by running it on an ice pack.
The 2018 version of the talk isn’t as entertaining but explains why matters aren’t going to improve much in the near future - largely because the performance of the average phone isn’t actually increasing that much due to the economics of silicon foundries:
