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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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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size. packet loss).

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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QUIC - Faster Content Delivery on Layer 4

KeyCDN

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. QUIC has been in the making since 2013. According to Google, about half of all requests from Chrome to Google web servers are served over QUIC. Google plans to propose QUIC as an IETF standard.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. Learning HTTP/2.

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands). Gzip Compression. How Do I Enable Gzip? Brotli Compression.

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radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance

CSS - Tricks

Even if you render components on the server and hydrate them on the client, it still churns because component hydration is computationally expensive. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. A stateful Preact component, also server-rendered and hydrated on the client.