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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

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. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

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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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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. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. In DevTools, the Network inspector helps us see what the first webpage is doing too.

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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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