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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Does the site load all the resources in the best order to guarantee a fast first paint? But how do you find all these things causing performance issues? Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. Stefan Judis.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Practical planning. Performance testing. Seasonal readiness testing involves both the front and back end. Stakeholder involvement.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. We can use the preload attribute for the HTML link element to optimize loading performance by ensuring that the browser discovers the resource earlier, downloads it, and caches it. Examples And Use Cases.

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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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