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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. On a slower, higher-latency connection, the story is much, mush worse. We get access to a CDN. to just 3.6s.

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Dynamic Content Vs. Static Content: What Are the Main Differences

IO River

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What As the website grows, the maintenance of static content can become more cumbersome and require robust content management practices.‍What

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Redis® Monitoring Strategies for 2024

Scalegrid

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem. It helps SRE teams automate responses.

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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. This simple, elegant strategy manages to balance caution with optimism, and applies to every new TCP connection that your web application makes.

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Dynamic Content Vs. Static Content: What Are the Main Differences

IO River

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets.

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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. What happens when we adjust our compression strategy?

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