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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. 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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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Active Memory Caching.

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

Brendan Gregg

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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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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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.