Smashing Magazine
MAY 9, 2022
Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2019
the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,
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Smashing Magazine
MAY 17, 2021
How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. Beau Hartshorne.
Smashing Magazine
MARCH 19, 2021
Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? CSS Generators.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2023
Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. This caching mechanism also improves the website’s resilience to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Case studies abound. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Use a static analysis tool or a vulnerability scanner (available from all major vendors such as Qualys , Veracode , or Micro Focus ) to assess how well you are complying with security best practices.
KeyCDN
AUGUST 29, 2019
According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time. As we can see from the graph below, this best practice is far from being met for sites based in the United States. Fonts are render-blocking as we discussed in our case study on web font performance.
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