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

IO River

This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How How Can You Boost Website Performance?To

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

IO River

This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How Can You Boost Website Performance?To

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

A performance budget as a mechanism for planning a web experience and preventing performance decay might consist of the following yardsticks: Overall page weight, Total number of HTTP requests, Page-load time on a particular mobile network, First Input Delay (FID). The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

What do these findings mean in web performance terms? When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly. But the missing ingredient here is flow.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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