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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one. Which brings me nicely on to… The important part of this section is cache busting. main.af8a22.css main.af8a22.css

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers?

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. and is constantly stopping and starting as different part of the document block it.

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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. Plus, they’ve created some more transparency about this, both in documentation and tooling. All those navigations can benefit from the Back/Forward Cache to instantly restore the page. Barry Pollard.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Honestly, in this scenario, my advice is almost always: don’t bother trying to retrofit Critical CSS—just hash-n-cache 1 2 the living daylights out of your existing CSS bundles until you replatform and do it differently next time. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. How do we automate it? performance.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? In browserland, this is known Queuing.