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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the response from the DNS is incorrect, you won’t be able to access the website. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the response from the DNS is incorrect, you won’t be able to access the website. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning.

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How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

Smashing Magazine

Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs. I highly recommend checking out these articles. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance.

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Optimize Images for Web

KeyCDN

We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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How I Used Brotli to Get Even Smaller CSS and JavaScript Files at CDN Scale

CSS - Tricks

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. We only cache hot files in memory at edge servers. Luckily we already had that in place.

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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. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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