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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. High Performance Browser Networking. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. 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. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

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. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Gamepad API.

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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Community is everything in the industry.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

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. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. For example: Think with Google suggests the typical page speed optimizations.

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