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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre. That said, the convenience of a service like Google Fonts cannot be overstated. What else could I do to make Google Fonts fast ?

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Accelerate transformation with automated observability for Google Cloud Platform

Dynatrace

As a leader in cloud infrastructure and platform services , the Google Cloud Platform is fast becoming an integral part of many enterprises’ cloud strategies. However, as businesses migrate to the Google Cloud Platform, they’re faced with even more complex, distributed environments that are inherently difficult to observe and operate.

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Free Google Book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

High Scalability

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. It's free to download, so don't be shy. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function.

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Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Site? Make Google Fonts Faster

MachMetrics

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts slow down my site?” Use that awesome font from Google and live with the performance hit.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 seconds, LCP lags at 3.96

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. Agustinus Theodorus.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Like PageSpeed, Lighthouse also has a performance score. What is Google Lighthouse? Recommended!

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