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

MachMetrics

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. Let’s take a look at how to get the most out of this powerful tool.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. 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.

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose.

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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. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),