Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. There are a handful of different entry subtypes but, for the scope of this article, we will be concerned with the PerformanceResourceTiming and PerformanceNavigationTiming subtypes. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Queued request. DNS lookup.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? It’s worth noting that you will end up with better Core Web Vitals scores by following a general advice in this article.).

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Queued request. DNS lookup.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. because their website can never be supported by any other CDN.‍Sign

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). From Addy’s article “ Loading Web Pages Fast On A $20 Feature Phone ”. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. Therefore, some of Akamai clients decided to use it to build their own website, and they did. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article we’ll take a look at the main types of Resource Hints and when and where we can use them in our pages. For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. <link rel="preconnect" href="[link].

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. HTTP/3 performance features. Changes To Pages And Resources.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If you wish to find out which one to choose for your next project, read this article. The technology develops single-page applications , websites, and backend API services designed with real-time and push-based architectures. with its low latency I/O operations, gives the benefit of ‘No buffering’ to developers. React Overview.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch!

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