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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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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 4 – PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II

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Performance Testing. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. . So, our testing indicates PgBouncer is the far better choice for connection pooling. Final Words.

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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 3)

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The OLTP workload (oltp.fio) that we ship as has the following characteristcs based on typical configurations that we see in the field (of course you can change these to whatever you like). The “Data” disks are doing both reads (from DB cache misses) and writes committed transactions. Target IOP rate of 4,000 IOPS.

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Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks

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I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke around, and identify performance pain points to work on. Web performance work is twofold: Step 1) Measure Things & Explore Problems Step 2) Fix it. Self-host fonts.

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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. WebPageTest Core Web Vitals Test. WebPageTest is, of course, a performance testing suite on its own. Additionally, it examines the number of third-party requests and resources a page makes. Your (smashing) email. Once a week.

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Why speed test results are different than your load times

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You may even have a client who’s wondering why they’re getting inconsistent results on tests they’ve run on a site you built for them. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Outside factors may be affecting your speed test results.

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

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Webpack Fundamentals is a very comprehensive 4h course with Sean Larkin, released by FrontendMasters.