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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. However, I still needed to be 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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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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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. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.) But what happens when it doesn't?

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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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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. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.