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? These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. The tool analyzes what resources are loaded on the website and in what order these resources come in.

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Cache Website Best Practices Network 106

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. What Does Google Lighthouse Test? Getting Started with Google Lighthouse.

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Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. If you incorrectly send Cache headers, users might be re-downloading a file over and over unnecessarily when they don’t need to, which is about the worst thing possible.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Editing Experience.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

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. PSI Score Reality.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 25, 2019

As you know, The Polyglot Developer is a static generated website that is built with Hugo. Given the nature of static generated websites, they are generally much faster than the CMS alternatives, but just because they’re fast, doesn’t mean they pass all of Google’s tests by default.

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Cache Best Practices Google Website 45

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We You can drill down into the test details for each site and learn how the fastest sites stay fast.)

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is more in-depth and technical. Changes To Pages And Resources.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

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? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. 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. Performance testing.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

. +-- modules/ | +-- payout/ | +-- index.js | +-- assets/ | +-- Components/ | +-- PayOut.vue | +-- UserInfo.vue | +-- store/ | +-- index.js. | +-- actions.js | +-- mutations.js. | +-- Test/. There is also a test folder to carry out testing for this feature. Best Practices When Writing Custom Directives.

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Speed Processing Development Code 133

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. web.dev’s main content is an image according to LCP (test ran on WebPageTest).

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ). Conclusion.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Initial tests by Google , for example, show low percentage improvements for its use cases.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Chris on Twitter. The Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. Weekly Update. Chris: Indeed.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145