Who are we? We are the Belgium Web Performance Group. We meet monthly to discuss various topics related to Web Performance, both front-end and back-end. We are one of the local entity as you have already many in the world (San Francisco, New York, etc...) Why is this so important? Multiple studies have shown a direct correlation between web site performance and the bottom line: +100ms → -1% sales (Amazon) * +400ms → -5-9% full-page traffic (Yahoo! Autos front page) ** +500ms → -20% searches …

Everybody needs a place to discuss with his peers, to get inspired and share ideas....This will be the place for web performance, developers and web operators. Are you interested in making the web faster, create a better user experience and make more money online? Or great post-mortem and/or case studies? Join this group!....And get the chance to meet your peers, show them how awesome your work is or just to grab a beer once in a while with inspiring people.

Competa organizes regular events at the conference centre, with technical presentations that will be of interest to technical IT staff. The events are held in the evening to make it easy for people to attend, and food and drinks are provided for free. Recent presentations have included IPv6, Open Solaris, Research Infrastructure, FreeBSD, Embedded systems, timekeeping, Web performance analysis, Puppet, Wireless, ZFS IPQoS Python and Django. Located at our offices in Rijswijk and easy to reach by …