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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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Key Performance Measurements for App Servers: Cause, Impact, and Resolution

DZone

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Cache hit ratio. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization.

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Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently

Smashing Magazine

Are all the caching headers set correctly? The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding! It provides standard metrics such as page weight and request count and analyzes your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently. Stefan Judis. 2021-06-10T11:15:00+00:00.

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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

His version can be used for the plan cache – the only challenge there is the information is transient, so you may not capture every query that uses a particular index. If possible, I'll also consider execution counts (from Query Store or the plan cache) to not just understand what query uses an index, but how frequently that query executes.

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Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores

Smashing Magazine

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

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NEW! December product update

Speed Curve

At a glance you can see: The status of the deploy The status of your performance budgets (if you have created budgets) An aggregate metric for all of the URLs tested in the deploy (set to Largest Contentful Paint by default) Clicking on any deployment in the list brings up your Deployment Details dashboard.

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Core Web Vital Tooling

CSS - Tricks

When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Actual web performance to users are things like how long did I have to wait to see the content on the page? Make stuff smaller! Both are useful.

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