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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.) But what happens when it doesn't?

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Google focuses on the 75th percentile of users in the CrUX data when reporting core web vitals metrics.

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

Smashing Magazine

A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 Meanwhile, a study of the cost of broadband in 2018 shows that a broadband connection in Niger costs $263 ‘per megabit per month’. Google Homepage — DOM.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.