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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin?

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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

Properly size images: Scaled images will definitely reduce the overall website size. WebP is the way to go WebP was first developed by Google back in 2010 and has now become the successor of JPEG. Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered.

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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. I’ve seen a lot of sites suffering from extremely volatile TTFB metrics that vary dramatically based on geography or whether or not there’s a cache hit or miss.

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

Jos

Or loading a 3rd party component like a Google Map, with all its additional assets needed to render the thing? A code coverage report, like the one Google Chrome provides won’t help us much. Code coverage tab on Google Chrome ( source ) As with everything else, there are trade-offs with lazy-loading. const latlng = new google.

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Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3 seconds on desktop and 11.4