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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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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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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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A number of sites moved to font-display: swap when this first came out, and Google Fonts even made it the default in 2019. Now, when put side by side, the web fonts are considerably nicer and do fit with the Smashing Magazine brand. The amount of code isn’t huge, but it still feels like a little bit more effort than it should be.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. So unlike the case with native applications, the progressive web app needs to be coded only once. Alex Husar.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

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There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? Active Memory Caching. Caching Schemes.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

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If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

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The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS. UX, Design.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer.