Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. WebPageTest Core Web Vitals Test. WebPageTest is, of course, a performance testing suite on its own. Additionally, it examines the number of third-party requests and resources a page makes. It also identifies unused images and layout shifts in a graph.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding! Yellow Lab Tools runs a number of audits, from CSS to JavaScript to performance and provides a detailed overview of issues and how to fix them. Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently. Stefan Judis.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. You can see how you might wind up with different results in performance tests simply by the type of real-user monitoring (RUM) that is in use.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

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