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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g. Lighthouse , WebPageTest ) and.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too.

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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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