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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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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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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

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In fact, we had to look into various cases for the form design: What happens when no data is provided at all? Given that a vast majority of our readers — wonderful people like you — are using autofill, it’s worth spending time designing an experience around it. Large preview ). The next day we subset the fonts and pushed them live.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

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On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do cachingcaching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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Meet Hydrogen: A React Framework For Dynamic, Contextual And Personalized E-Commerce

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On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls. Large preview ). This is not a debate about dynamic vs. static.

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