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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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Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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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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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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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 We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search.