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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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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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Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently

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Are all the caching headers set correctly? It provides standard metrics such as page weight and request count and analyzes your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also points out a too complex HTML structure, and it also checks your server and cache header configuration. Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

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But we can’t really say just yet whether it had any impact on the business metrics — well, we’ll need to wait for a big book release to see that. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. Green Scores in Lighthouse on Mobile. New Online Workshops on Smashing.

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A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering

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You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Repairing Magazine has a very peculiar business model. Repairing Magazine user interface relies on a modern JavaScript library, React. Let’s focus on a scenario very useful for blog owners: handling paid content.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part. Note : There are plenty of other tools that provide us with a metric for data transfer including the much revered WebPagetest.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

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Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed.

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How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

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Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We can run Lighthouse test to check the metrics and use this data for comparison. Without priority hints.

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