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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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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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Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Site? Make Google Fonts Faster

MachMetrics

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. Cache-Headers missing?

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Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. As usual, I was minding my own business.

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7 Fresh Links on Performance For March 2022

CSS - Tricks

It’s like when Google Fonts finally got a redesign and the broad community let out a collective exhale of appreciation. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. When I first started caring about web performance, this was, like, the main thing.