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

Speed Curve

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. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. But what happens when it doesn't?

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile. CSS Generators.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Again, it’s easy to fake performance optimization by leaving out the bad metrics, blocking users who spoil the stats.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

The Morning Paper

A far memory data structure has: far data in far memory, containing the core content of the data structure data caches at clients algorithms for operations. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables. Refreshable vectors. A worked example.

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

Rigor

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Case studies abound.

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