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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

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The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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O'Reilly

By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Without websites, there would be no need for Google search or raw material for its results; without merchants, no Amazon. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.” The market was maturing. The same is true of other internet gatekeepers.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

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And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. I meet with so many people whose job it is to build and optimize websites. Clearly we need to keep talking about it. We need to understand how ever-growing pages work against us.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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