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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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

Smashing Magazine

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Performance budgets should adapt depending on the network conditions for an average mobile device.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times).