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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? This gave rise to heavy bundling and concatenation—why download three CSS files (half of our budget) if we could compress them into one?

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can. download any CSS needed for the current context (medium, screen size, resolution, orientation, etc.) Employ Critical CSS.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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WordPress Cache Enabler Plugin Updates

KeyCDN

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. Over the last few months there have been many changes made to Cache Enabler.

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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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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. You only need to write platform-specific code where it’s necessary, for example, to implement a native UI or when working with platform-specific APIs.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app.