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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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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

It would’ve been really embarrassing if we’d tested poorly in ‘Performance’! What Does Google Lighthouse Test? Here you’ll find the usual page speed metrics such as Speed Index, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, etc. Lucky for you, one of the best cheat codes is free and open-source.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Core web vitals are modern performance metrics that analyze page speed signals that are crucial to providing a superior web experience.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Google PageSpeed Insights - Scoring 100/100 with WordPress

KeyCDN

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Testing And Monitoring. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.