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

Speed Curve

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. This can include a lot of different service layers, not just serving from cache.

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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

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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). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir.

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

MachMetrics

His article in the Web Performance Calendar, The ugly truth about optimizing beautiful images , explores a few case studies and offers some solutions as well. Case 2 in Gooding’s article, was an instance where the total size of the site’s images was cut in half, visitors were still experiencing lag.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). How can we develop templated detection modules (rules- and ML-based) and data streams to increases speed of development?