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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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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

MachMetrics

Among the reasons for this was the common myth that using SSL may slow down your website. In a vacuum, an SSL certificate does add some additional latency, as it requires 2 extra round trips to establish a secure connection before sending any data to the browser. The server can also preemptively send resources, reducing delays.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Top 3 Challenges in Cross Browser Testing and How to Tackle Them

Testsigma

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

Cloud 117
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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 112
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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

AWS 114