Also called: Site Speed Engineer
Specializes in making websites and apps load faster and run smoother.
You dig through waterfall charts to find the one giant image making a store's page take 8 seconds on a phone. Shaving one second can earn a company millions, so your experiments are watched closely.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's plus front-end experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science, Computer Engineering.
Growing faster than average. Small specialty at large web companies.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI tools suggest speed fixes, but diagnosing slow pages at scale across browsers and networks stays expert work.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, AP Statistics, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1252.
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