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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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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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. Large preview ).

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? CSS Generators.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

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While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. 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.

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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

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. Poor performance of third-party services can have other business impacts even if your website does not use advertising.

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