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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) It is challenging to figure out why WordPress is slow.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. What’s more, their platform delivers improved workload efficiency through backup automation along with performance-optimizing tools specific for various types of databases as well as continuous monitoring & benchmarking capabilities.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

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?