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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. Save Data API. And Is It Used?

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

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A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited.

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WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

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We collaborated with WaterBear and its partner companies to build a revamped and redesigned version of WaterBear’s web and mobile app from the ground up using modern front-end technologies. Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS.

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A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

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Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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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. Large preview ). Watch out for the Webpack Roadmap 2021.

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

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These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. Don’t forget to include alt text, so that users of assistive technologies can access the content of the image. navigator.share({ title: 'Smashing Magazine', text: 'Web development news and tutorials', url: '[link] }).