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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. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Jack Lenox.

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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.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Slow websites are just one problem, but for those of us who spend much of our work and personal time online, slow sites creates extra friction in an already friction-filled world.

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

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. 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.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. In fact, JPEG XL seems to be performing way better across the board. Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times).