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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Active Memory Caching. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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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. About the most complex part are some social media buttons for people to share the page. An example CSS file that wouldn’t block rendering would be: <link href="printing.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print">.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. Generation.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Global Ground-Truth.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Social media ads. second benchmark for mobile loading. Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Clean coding practices.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster.

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