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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Not even close. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Not even close. **How What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Toolbelt: Page Speed

Tim Kadlec

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. Leverage browser caching. Leverage proxy caching. Specify a cache validator. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do.

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