CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️ Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one. main.af8a22.css

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. Expect closer to 75ms.

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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. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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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. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Broken access controls Broken access controls are when access is unintentionally provided to pages or sections of a website that should be secured. This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. Quite a number of brands prefer WordPress to maintain their website.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. So we still need to move things from the server they were compiled at to the edges of the network. Long story short: we do not want to invalidate cache for a page or an asset that has not changed.

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Percona

JULY 27, 2023

MySQL previously released software quarterly as part of a continuous delivery system where new features were made available. is an evolution of the MySQL server and related software. Seems like a lot of work to do while servers are failing, but it should save the data in a better state. Suspicious servers? Tempus Fugit!

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Indexing is another powerful technique for query optimization.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. However, fetching large chunks of data before rendering can slow down the initial page load.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering.

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

website, we noticed a 10% improvement in the page load times across the site. One of my favourite features of HTTP/2 is Server Push. This is where Server Push is a game changer. Instead of waiting for the HTTP response, it allows the server to “push” the resources it thinks the client will need into its cache.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? Cache-Control.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

If the web font isn’t available then, we fall back to the fallback font, but the next page navigation (or a reload of this page) will use the font — as it should have finished downloading now. It’s also trickier to handle cached fonts we already have, not to mention differences in various fallback styles.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. Save Data API.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available. In the below image, ‘fast’ websites are those with a FCP consistently below 1 second. Conversely, ‘slow’ websites are consistently slower that 3 seconds. It can also be described as server delay.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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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

JUNE 18, 2020

Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server. The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. No, not at all. Solving Both. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

When a user requests a website, the browser must process all the information available to determine the layout and style. If your website is built more like this… Pro Tip: Don’t have 21 external stylesheets. This is a roundtrip that the browser has to make before it renders the website.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. It would not be a first that a customer thinks that his EC2 instance is down when in reality it is some name server somewhere that is not functioning correctly. Comments ().

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”. HTTPS, which by design prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, utterly breaks local caching servers.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis® instances for better performance optimization. Keeping a tab on memory usage provides additional insight into the health of operations running through Redis® servers.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. Servers down or server health issues [APM]. Being proactive is a far better use of your team’s time than being reactive. webperf #perfmatters Click To Tweet.

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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 website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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