Last week, over 65,000 members of the Next.js community tuned in to watch a special edition of Next.js Conf where we shared our progress toward building a faster web. Missed it? Here's what you need to know. Link to heading Improving User and Developer Experience with Next.js 11 Next.js 11 continues our mission to provide the best user and developer experience possible. With Next.js 11 we introduced a new Script component , designed to improve loading performance and give developers greater flexibility when adding third-party scripts to their applications. Next.js expert Lydia Hallie demonstrated the updated Image component , which now has automatic size detection and support for blur-up placeholders . These updates create a smoother loading experience for end-users and reduce Cumulative Layout Shift , a Core Web Vital. Images are often the largest part of web pages, especially in eCommerce. The Community has done a great job improving the Next.js image component since it was released in October.…