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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. In almost each case, the size of the WebP images was smaller.

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

Speed Curve

Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin? In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.)

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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). Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

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Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. Jonne Kats. 2021-09-24T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-24T10:06:13+00:00.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

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)? What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. The next day we subset the fonts and pushed them live. CSS Generators.

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Synthetic Monitoring vs. RUM

Rigor

The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Synthetic monitoring actively allows users to monitor the performance of their website or application with a set of controlled variables (geography, network, device, browser, cached vs. uncached) over time.