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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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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

That performance golden rule still holds true today. However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. 80% of end-user response time is spent on the front end.

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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI). Monitoring I started with the cloud-wide monitoring tool, [Atlas], to check high-level CPU metrics.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? We’re no exception. Further analysis.

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