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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. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. 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 Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

Dotcom-Montior

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. It is understood that no system is 100 percent reliable.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning.

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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. And of course, you need to host and deliver your images. You don’t have to offload your content.

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Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). His most recent book, Hacking Web Performance , walks the reader through improving performance from initial load and data transfer to resource loading and the overall user experience. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt. Vitaly Friedman.