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Why we picked it A talk (with writeup) on serving a genuinely different, lighter experience to low end devices and slow networks, drawing on how Facebook and others do it in practice. It pushes past image tricks into loading fewer features and lighter components when the device is weak. Watch it when you are ready to design tiers of experience rather than one page for everyone.
Adaptive loading: improving web performance on slow devices
On web.dev (Chrome Dev Summit talk writeup) by Nate Schloss and Addy Osmani 25 min talk
- Adapt the whole experience, not just image quality, to the device
- Weak devices can get fewer, lighter components on purpose
- Detecting device and network capability is now practical in the browser
