Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

You might have noticed 2 different compression options in your research, and wondered which was better. So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. How Do I Enable Gzip? One such measure is HTTP compression.

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Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. When your website isn’t performing optimally, you risk not only your revenue but also your reputation as a trusted resource.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

The new feature integrates into the existing CDN and is available to all customers. We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? The file ending (.jpg

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We love hearing from customers who successfully increase their website’s performance. Recently, we noticed one website see such a dramatic improvement that we had to ask for more details. He switched his site from a PHP site to a static site built with static website generator Jekyll. The secret? An SSG is exactly that.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Conclusion.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. Dan Shappir.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. There are many use cases: personalization, internationalization, theming, multi-tenancy, A/B tests…. Congratulations On Your New Job.

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS. How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS. WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. Rethink Your Content Strategy For A Headless CMS ”. “ Alba Silvente.

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Website Architecture Technology Technology 141

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article.

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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. Table template in Dreamweaver 1.2

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up? We usually consider a site fast when its pages load in lesser than 3 seconds.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). The platform we used for our e-commerce sites was based on ASP.NET and when visitors started to expect more interaction, we added React for the front-end. Jonne Kats.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. I’ll cover the following: How to improve the LCP Resource load time subpart with the help of the <img> tag and a focus on proper LCP image sizing. How to improve LCP Resource load delay subpart. Jump to table of contents ↬. Large preview ).

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Rigor

JULY 25, 2019

Stay with us – it’s not that much of a stretch. We’ve made your life easier by starting the comparison for you. We’ve made your life easier by starting the comparison for you. She needs complex – yet early – information that’s related to your back end (no diaper jokes, please). Do you need a CDN?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

How To Choose A Headless CMS. How To Choose A Headless CMS. In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. We will explore those features, the associated challenges and help you choose a headless CMS to satisfy your organization’s unique requirements. Emmanuel Tissera.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your operations team is ready to go. How do you manage or even mitigate that impact?

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To me, it’s a must-use in any project where real user monitoring (RUM) is being instrumented. Let’s rethink how we can leverage this header. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00. More after jump!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. Your first option is to use its native CDN - Amazon CloudFront, as it seamlessly integrates with all of your other AWS Services that you're using to build your service.‍For

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

In this article, I will explain how to use Quasar Framework and its state-of-the-art UI (which follows Material guidelines) to build a notes app. At the end of the article, you should have a proper understanding of what Quasar is, how to get started creating apps with Quasar, and also how to use Firebase.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. Brotli’s beginning….

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

If you’ve ever used a CDN-hosted version of a JavaScript library, you may have noticed a strange looking integrity attribute on the script tag. All that junk is actually a really useful security feature called Subresource Integrity (SRI) that can help to defend your site against certain types of hacks and compromises.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Think of a situation where you're asked to build a service in AWS that distributes static content to your users. Later on, your service might require security, and you might use AWS Web Application Firewall, which directly integrates with Amazon CloudFront to help secure your service. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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Lambda AWS Cache Website 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. Automating Website Deployments Through Buddy. This is a sponsored article.) Managing the deployment of a website used to be easy: It simply involved uploading files to the server through FTP and you were pretty much done. Leonardo Losoviz. 2019-09-03T12:30:00+02:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everyone can play a role in this, including those of us working on the web. But calculating carbon emissions takes into account much more than bytes over the wire: there’s the power used in development, the data centers that host our files, the power consumed by the end users’ devices, and more. The Impact Of Social Media Embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Performance budget, as used on performance monitoring tools, such as SpeedCurve.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget. I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget. This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Chris Ashton.

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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. It shows how much time it takes to load for each element. In the image below, it is pointed at with the arrow.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Here’s where I wish I could say (without caveats): “Don’t worry, Django has your back!” These files are only used client-side. Philip Kiely. Files everywhere!

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