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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts.

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Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

When a web crawler visits a server that has already rendered the content and pictures, indexing and caching of the content becomes quicker. A community-enabled platform promotes innovation and makes Reactjs one of the most popular choices for developing dynamic websites and applications. What is React Native? React Native.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. All CMS's should be offering this level of image manipulation and caching. Case study: the new responsive Guardian site. Source: SpeedCurve.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example.