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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index. More interestingly, let’s take a look at Speed Index vs. Largest Contentful Paint.

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Best Practices for Picking PostgreSQL Data Types

DZone

Determining the most appropriate data types to store the information depends on various factors, including the required precision of float-point values, the content of the values (such as text), compressibility, and query speed. Choosing the right data types in PostgreSQL can significantly impact your database's performance and efficiency.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Performance and Scalability Analysis of Redis and Memcached

DZone

Speed and scalability are significant issues today, at least in the application landscape. We have run these benchmarks on the AWS EC2 instances and designed a custom dataset to make it as close as possible to real application use cases. However, the question arises of choosing the best one.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters

Smashing Magazine

Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters. Part Of: Design Patterns. Designing For The Comfortable Range. A well-designed filter in a well-designed trip planner UI. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-07-14T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-14T14:23:10+00:00. Filters are everywhere.

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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. in this article. Connection One thing we haven’t looked at is the impact of network speeds on these outcomes. Larger files compress much more effectively and thus download faster at all connection speeds.

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