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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

The Best Practices audit will run checks for things like SSL certificates (HTTPS), caching, and outbound link safety. It will also do a test for vulnerabilities in your JavaScript libraries, as well as a test for deprecated APIs. Lucky for you, one of the best cheat codes is free and open-source. Best Practices.

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Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

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We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. When you send the user code that is not needed, you waste resources from your end, and from the user’s end.

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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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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

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. We test the home page of a WordPress website using the Website Speed Test.

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Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx

Smashing Magazine

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx provides standard tools for testing and styling in your Next.js

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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. Since you have access to these tools/extensions the average page load time of your WordPress should be lesser than 5 seconds max.

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