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Links on Performance V

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New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web — Tim Perry gets into two brand new (proposed) caching headers: Cache-Status and Targetted Cache-Control. CWVs were announced in May 2020 and then we were told by May 2021 they would become a factor in SEO. Have Core Web Vitals made the web faster? Both are free.

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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. pic.twitter.com/k6obyVZGZP — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 11 May, 2020. This is the danger of the print media hack.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. Review Of The Year 2020. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile. What Is TypeScript?

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

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But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% These may, for instance, include the game and social media app sectors. What Does This Mean?

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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds

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Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker. Two embeds.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

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A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate.

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