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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. DOM Scripting.

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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.

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

Smashing Magazine

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). For security reasons, to avoid fingerprinting, browsers have been implementing partitioned caching that was introduced in Safari back in 2013, and in Chrome last year. Decent , with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet being on board.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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). Service Worker Pitfalls and Best Practices , with a few tips about the scope, delaying registering a service worker and service worker caching.