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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. While I have no doubt that there are legitimate use cases, do we really need analytics on every website?

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.