Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. You'll have to read on for what it is!

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. Performance development.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

The HBO sitcom Silicon Valley hilariously followed Pied Piper, a team of developers with startup dreams to create a compression algorithm so powerful that high-quality streaming and file storage concerns would become a thing of the past. In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110