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WebP Caching has Landed!

KeyCDN

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? Enable the Feature for your Zones Cache Key WebP can be enabled for all Pull Zones. Once enabled, a Zone will cache each image separately as WebP and the other image format (e.g. Optimus offers an efficient way to generate WebP images.

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Year in Web Performance: 2019

MachMetrics

In the below image, ‘fast’ websites are those with a FCP consistently below 1 second. Conversely, ‘slow’ websites are consistently slower that 3 seconds. The results show that only 13% of the websites in this study are considered fast. Only 2% of the websites in the pool had a TTFB under 0.2

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Push Zone Supports WebP and Brotli

KeyCDN

The feature WebP caching and Brotli compression is now also available for Push Zones! WebP caching is automatically active once Image Processing is enabled and will transform images to WebP if the client supports the format. Since launching WebP caching for Pull Zones, a lot of customer started optimizing images with great success.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Smashing Magazine

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. — that it will give people the impression, perhaps subconsciously, that something is “off” about the website and may impact how people use the website.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? Cache-Control.

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If You’re Not Lazy Loading Your Images, You’re Being Wasteful

MachMetrics

So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? It’s now almost 2019, and there are no more excuses. Think about the last time you went out to dinner. Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them? Of course not, that would be a waste.

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