CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. From fonts to SVG: an icon migration strategy — Erwin Hofman notes that he was using icon fonts out of sheer convenience, but that there are loads of reasons not to use them. He provides details on his new strategy for using icons, which is based on the <use> technique.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. An unoptimized indexing strategy can impede data insertion and retrieval operations. One effective strategy is query rewriting, where you restructure your SQL queries to be more efficient.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse.

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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? Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. Establish a performance culture.

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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? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Planning, planning, planning.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. I would think twice before doing that as it might not be worthwhile, especially with today’s caching mechanisms.

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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? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Planning, planning, planning.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

But these strategies should fit the vast majority of apps around with little to no adjustments. For example, you might share authentication in one Context, internationalization preferences in another, and website theme in another. zero-config caching layer. error handler. loading handler. Try It Yourself.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Introducing…Rich Howard.

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