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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. Large preview ). How Partytown Works.

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The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates

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The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. While CDNs have taken over the world of internet, they face major challenges in integration with SSL certificates.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

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Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. import("path/to/myFunction.js").then((myFunction)

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. The CSS-Tricks website has good documentation on font-display.

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The 5 Most Underrated WebPageTest Features

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There is actually an entire suite of advanced features that give you an unparalleled view of your site from a performance standpoint. WebPageTest has good documentation , but it isn’t the most beginner-friendly. Need to speed test a website that lives behind a login? WebPageTest Scripting.

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

For those that want to delve into CrUX even more, there are monthly tables of CrUX data available in BigQuery (at origin level only, so not for individual URLs) and Rick has also documented how you can create a CrUX dashboard based on that which can be a good way of monitoring your overall website performance over the months.

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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. For content-heavy websites that are dealing with a lot of third-party content, these options could potentially help speed up render times dramatically. Image source ).