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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Large preview ). CSS Generators.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. Although landing pages are a common practice in online marketing, we were trying to make the most of it. SEO is key to our success.

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10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Rigor

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.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.

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From AVIF to WebP: A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani

Smashing Magazine

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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