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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

As of August 2018, Helsinki alone had a population of almost 650,000 people. However, now with the Helsinki edge server in production, this helps further close the gap between visitors who live in Finland and the nearest KeyCDN POP they have access to.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. QUOTE : “From the millions of tests performed using our website speed tests, we found that the average load time for a webpage is 3.21

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10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Rigor

In one high-profile example, Amazon dealt with significant outages on Prime Day 2018 , which may have cost them as much as $99 million in sales. JCrew’s site went down on Black Friday 2018 for five hours , costing the company more than $700,000 in sales and impacting approximately 323,000 shoppers. Case studies abound.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. Upon receipt of a valid Alt-Svc header indicating HTTP/3 support, the browser will cache this and try to set up a QUIC connection from then on.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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

Smashing Magazine

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g.

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

Smashing Magazine

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.