Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, while HTTP deals with URLs and data interpretation, Transport Layer Security (TLS) ensures security by encryption, TCP enables reliable data transport by retransmitting lost packets, and Internet Protocol (IP) routes packets from one endpoint to another across different devices in between (middleboxes). What Is QUIC?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Let’s contemplate what would happen if A, B, and C were all render-blocking resources. Congestion Control. see figure 2c above).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Result: zero RTT for repeat views.

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