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How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

Smashing Magazine

Let’s focus on how these resources are requested and downloaded. The HTML document is the first resource to be requested and downloaded, but how do browsers determine what to download next and in which order? Browsers have a set of predetermined priorities for each resource type, so they can be downloaded in an optimal order.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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.” Currently a Principal Software Engineer at Fastly , he previously helped architect some of the world’s largest media websites. Be sure to download the slides from his recent presentation at O’Reilly Fluent, To push or not to push? You can find him on Twitter @ patrickhamann or catch him on the speaker circuit.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

Professional Website Performance: Optimizing the Front-End and Back-End. The book is divided in 2 sections and covers pretty much everything in terms of web performance. Definitely a must read for whoever is interested in web performance! – Aurel V.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. Performance Costs. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Adrian Bece.

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