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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

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. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size.

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Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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). To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy.

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Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. Further analysis.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Present it to the team.

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Synthetic Monitoring vs. RUM

Rigor

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Real User Monitoring (RUM). Benchmark Against Competitors.