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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. While I have no doubt that there are legitimate use cases, do we really need analytics on every website? We should make serving our website as easy for our server as possible. Jack Lenox.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m.,

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. And of course, you need to host and deliver your images. One alternative is to host and deliver video through a third party like YouTube or Vimeo.

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SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

Dotcom-Montior

Automating repetitive tasks across the board, whether it is testing, software deployment, incident response, or simply communication between teams, automating provides immediate benefits, efficiencies, and most importantly, consistency. To support these new DevOps environment and practices, various platforms and tools have been developed.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

Of course, the web (any, by extension, the websites we make) does have a carbon footprint. One tool that uses this data to estimate the carbon emissions of a single page is the Website Carbon Calculator. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. More after jump!

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

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Sean Learkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone. Image source ).