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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. However, I still needed to be fast.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

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. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. The reason for the distinction is that there are different ways to throttle a network for testing.

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