CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? in this article. Cache This is the easy one. What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 15, 2020

Monitoring your website resource breakdown is one of the most important things you can do when you own or run a website. Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts , Page Weight , and CSS files have on your website performance. Website Resource Monitoring is Key!

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Átila Fassina.

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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. The new WebPageTest website design. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

— Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. This is building upon Philip Walton’s “Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers” article. Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021? Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?

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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. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. We’re no exception.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

Have you ever been on a website and noticed a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available? This is where a pop up notification like Google’s Inbox provides the user with a means of always having the latest version of cached resources. then(cache => cache.addAll([ './dog.jpg'

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. Schools also utilize DBMS to manage the databases of their students.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. This is a bit of a shame, as I believe they are useful for websites.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

Bugs could come up due to different reasons, in this article, we will discuss them from the perspective of software errors. Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. Then such a website is of no use to the customer, and this is a functional error. Caching errors. of the dialog boxes.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. 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.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. 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.

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Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. 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.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

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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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. These checks ensure that your website or web app is accessible to all visitors.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

— Jeremy Wagner sets up a “Streaming” Service Worker that caches common partials on a website (e.g. This is building upon Philip Walton’s “Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers” article. Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021? Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021?

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. Related Articles.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? My previous article implemented lazy loading in plain javascript, but I wanted something more robust. Think about the last time you went out to dinner. Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them?

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Present it to the team.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library. You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? Here is an example taken from the React Alicante website. And this not only applies to JavaScript, but every type of asset.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

In this article, we’re going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them. The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. Further Resources.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

So in this article, we’ll pit Gzip vs Brotli and completely end the debate! These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. One such measure is HTTP compression. OK, not really.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In this article, we’ll go over the similarities and differences between HTTP Preload vs HTTP/2 Push and discuss when it makes sense to use each. This allows you to better leverage browser caching. Although there are similarities between Push and Preload, they are two distinct features and each serve their own purpose.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

Have you ever been on a website and noticed a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available? This is where a pop up notification like Google’s Inbox provides the user with a means of always having the latest version of cached resources. then(cache => cache.addAll([ './dog.jpg'

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