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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing? When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed.

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How to Speed Up Page Load Times with Google’s PageSpeed Insights

MachMetrics

Google’s PageSpeed Insights tools may be just what you need to leverage data collected through speed testing. Having too many large images, files, and plugins may slow down site speed or server response times and that is where PageSpeed testers come in. What is PageSpeed Insights? Understanding Your PageSpeed Insights Score.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Web Performance In Action.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!,

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

Elena is an invaluable member of our development team – and as an athlete, adventurer, and traveller, she's equally invaluable as an inspiration for living our best lives outside work hours! Andy joined us in June , and since then he's already helped countless customers in his role as in-house performance consultant.

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Build a Node.js Tool to Record and Compare Google Lighthouse Reports

CSS - Tricks

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. Google Lighthouse is one of the best-automated tools available on a web developer's utility belt. Hello world.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Smashing Magazine

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one.

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