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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. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Check Internet Speed With Apple Network Responsiveness

DZone

There are umpteen tools available to check the internet speed. SpeedTest, Speed from Cloudflare , Netflix's Fast , or if you use Google search , you can test the internet speed and its analytics. In this blog article, we will deep dive into network quality and its usage. Launching networkQuality.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Chrome for iOS?

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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS. it can often be a net loss. There is a lot to digest in this article.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Pony Express, as we saw earlier, is a ground-up implementation of networking primitives. SOSP’19.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

before the app’s key functionality is available, with almost half waiting over 3.5s! Google Analytics Until recently , Google Analytics also surfaces DOMContentLoaded information. Takeaways here are: Only about 10% of Chrome visitors have what Google deem to be a Good DOMContentLoaded. for the vast minority of sessions.

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