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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Given this limitation, it was advantageous to have fewer files: if we needed to download 18 files, that’s three separate chunks of work; if we could somehow bring that number down to six, it’s only one discrete chunk of work. main.af8a22.css

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Mastering web performance – A comprehensive approach to optimal web speed

Dareboost

Web performance, or website speed, is an integral part of web development that pertains to the speed at which web pages are downloaded and displayed on the user’s browser.

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Speeding Up Restores in Percona Backup for MongoDB

Percona

Bringing physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) was a big step toward the restoration speed. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. So we decided to try parallel (concurrent) download. So every minute matters. Let’s try.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

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New Network Fallacies

Tim Kadlec

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. In theory, the maximum downlink speed is 100 Mbps.

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