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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. Web Performance Collection. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” ” Currently a Principal Software Engineer at Fastly , he previously helped architect some of the world’s largest media websites.

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How I Used Brotli to Get Even Smaller CSS and JavaScript Files at CDN Scale

CSS - Tricks

In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers.

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

Smashing Magazine

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean? Image source ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.