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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ).

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Large preview ).

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

Smashing Magazine

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ).

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. We now have everything we need to create a ballpark perf budget for a product in 2017.