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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. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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KeyCDN Launches New POPs in 2021

KeyCDN

With a population of almost 200 million people, Nigera is by far the largest country in Africa and millions of internet users will benefit from faster websites if powered by KeyCDN. This now changes with the new POP. Currently, more than 40% of Nigeria's population are using the internet today.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Rigor

In one high-profile example, Amazon dealt with significant outages on Prime Day 2018 , which may have cost them as much as $99 million in sales. JCrew’s site went down on Black Friday 2018 for five hours , costing the company more than $700,000 in sales and impacting approximately 323,000 shoppers. Case studies abound.

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. Improvement #1: Redirects.

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 Meanwhile, a study of the cost of broadband in 2018 shows that a broadband connection in Niger costs $263 ‘per megabit per month’. Let’s talk about caching.

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