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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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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

You can use it through the Chrome Dev tools, through the command line, or as a Node module if you really want to get your hands dirty. It offers audits for best practices, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and of course, performance. Let’s take a look at how to get the most out of this powerful tool.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always.

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

Rigor

At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

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. Leverage Browser Caching Files We are now receiving a warning about leveraging browser caching.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

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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What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

The good news is there are website monitoring tools specially designed to solve this problem. You may start your diagnosis from our free speed test tool , and no sign up is required. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website. Best Practices.

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