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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. But what else is TTFB?

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6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

The world of eCommerce continues to grow year by year. As consumers want to purchase items from the comfort of their own home and have them delivered in a timely manner, the opportunities in eCommerce are ever-expanding. All of these things come into play when discussing the conversion rate of any eCommerce store.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency.

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Not Fake News: Respecting Your Users’ Time Pays Off

Rigor

Measuring your mobile UX has some added complexities: namely network speed and latency. Use a monitoring solution with network throttling so you can control for network and latency. Recently, we helped an ecommerce customer with this process. They had actually built a fast website, but it was being dragged down by vendors.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Not everyone uses Chrome to access your website. Take an ecommerce site as an example.

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