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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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However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. What Does Google Lighthouse Test? Performance. Accessibility.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

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All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” While these do have a purpose, most people use them incorrectly, in a way that can be dangerous to your real site speed. seconds to.27

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Why is Wordpress Slow?

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A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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