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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. In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere.

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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

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. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly. This is not surprising given what we now know about our deep craving for flow.

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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. 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.