Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. The benefits of WebP are obvious.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Lighthouse.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. The new WebPageTest website design. This is way better.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. Jennifer Brehm.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. Select a server location closest to you and your visitors for better results.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. 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. Google Homepage — DOM.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

google-analytics.com", "sanList":[ "*.google-analytics.com", google-analytics.com", "*.fps.goog", Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 PTST/210419.211328", "accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

You have to consider at least four different contexts: How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search? How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? How well does AMP perform compared to the canonical article? How well does AMP perform in the context of Google search?

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. Let’s cd into the new slow-jamstack project directory and start the development server: cd slow-jamstack gatsby develop. This will create the site in Vercel and put it on a live server. src/html.js. That gives us html.js in the src directory.

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Cache Google Analytics Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. You can export the results as a CSV file for Excel, Google Sheets or Apple Pages.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands).

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Option 1: Default Django.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Let’s take a look at different methodologies incorporated in the Great Firewall of China. Blocking VPNs.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. But if you’re worried that you’re not getting the performance you expected because of large, poorly optimized images, don’t worry because that’s what you’re reading this article for! Cache Your Images. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. The Font Style Matcher app by Monica Dinculescu is often cited in font loading articles and gives a fantastic glimpse of what should be possible here. However, beyond that it didn’t really solve the problem.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 Clean coding practices. Minification.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. PWAs don’t require installation from the App Store or Google Play to the device to be used (like native apps do). You need a site for that.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Let’s take a look at different methodologies incorporated in the Great Firewall of China. Blocking VPNs.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In this article, I’ll share an overview of what it was that we wanted to achieve and what we encountered while trying to implement our goals. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Large preview ).

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 8, 2015

They had a timer visible to both the customer and the server. One of the most absurd happened when a customer informed the server that part of their order was missing. The server had the customer first drive forward a few feet, and then back up to the window. You can build your sites to be prerender and cache friendly.

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