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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Split Your Media Types. Employ Critical CSS. The practical upshot of this is that the browser will….

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. Files everywhere!

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

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From AVIF to WebP: A New Smashing Book By Addy Osmani

Smashing Magazine

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +. Large view.

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What is digital experience?

Dynatrace

You have to be aware that at any of your digital touchpoints, the digital experience is measured against the best-in-class available coming from Google, Facebook and other digital leaders. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost intensive and not always fruitful. I tend to lean towards social media for evaluating this.