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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

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Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

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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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