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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

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And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Some are user-specific, like the shopping cart in the header or the wish list, and due to the personal nature of the data, they should never be cached. But even in the planning phases, traps await. Font Loading.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

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Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience. Source: Source: DebugBear.

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Signals For Customizing Website User Experience

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Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. And Is It Used? Data Saver.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

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Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. System fonts or ‘Web Safe Fonts’ are the fonts most commonly pre-installed across operating systems. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

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Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Server-Side Performance.