Tech Product Manager
by Ben Barden
Page load speed is important – possibly more so than ever, thanks to the dominance of mobile devices for browsing the web.
As of July 2015, [load time] was cut down to 1.7 seconds — an 85 percent improvement gained by shedding bulky features that took too long to load. With the progressive web app, article pages load in 80 milliseconds, Merrell said.
Source: “With lessons from Google, The Washington Post has brought its page load speed down to milliseconds” (Poynter)
by Ben Barden
I’ll be writing more about bespoke CMS development in the future. For now, here’s a quote from a relevant BBC Academy article:
The CMS software market is quite crowded, with a huge number of products competing with each other. Despite this, we struggled to find a CMS that met our requirements around flexibility, multi-tenant operation and integration with existing services. Those that did come close also provided a vast array of other features that we did not require (such as rendering systems), which would end up complicating our architecture and adding a support burden.
In addition, off-the-shelf CMS tools generally have quite fixed user interfaces, which are hard to customise. We knew that ill-fitting user interfaces could be a real problem for our users, and we were determined to provide them with a system that allowed them to get on with their jobs without tools getting in their way.