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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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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

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If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

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Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance. The tool gives you the option to run a speed test from 25 locations around the world. Optimize Your Pages.

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Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Site? Make Google Fonts Faster

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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?” Why We Need to Optimize Google Fonts.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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

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This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Cache-Headers missing? What is Google Lighthouse? Recommended! What changed in PageSpeed 5.0?

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