Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Does the site load all the resources in the best order to guarantee a fast first paint? These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. The tool analyzes what resources are loaded on the website and in what order these resources come in.

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Website Cache Best Practices Network 109

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

The reality is that these scores are estimates of how well your site implements performance best practices. These best practices can make your site faster, but they don’t always. Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Generally, this is the wrong way to look at the problem.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 4, 2024

“Automatic,” the website development company behind various WordPress-related products, including WordPress.com, offers WordPress VIP. It is a premium managed hosting service explicitly designed for high-traffic and high-profile websites. It controls content delivery networks (CDNs), advanced caching, and other optimization procedures.

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Website Development Education Traffic 59

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse is a completely open-source tool that allows users to test any website in a multitude of ways. These checks ensure that your website or web app is accessible to all visitors.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

The new WebPageTest website design. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. If you incorrectly send Cache headers, users might be re-downloading a file over and over unnecessarily when they don’t need to, which is about the worst thing possible.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the world’s leading search engine, Google is committed to delivering the best possible search results to its users. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. ‍TLS Certificate Breach - A TLS certificate is a digital document that authenticates the identity of a website or server and enables secure encrypted communication. Let’s explore.‍Common

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Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 52

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 25, 2019

As you know, The Polyglot Developer is a static generated website that is built with Hugo. Given the nature of static generated websites, they are generally much faster than the CMS alternatives, but just because they’re fast, doesn’t mean they pass all of Google’s tests by default. This is where Workbox comes in.

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Cache Best Practices Google Website 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. As developers, all the points illustrated in this article should therefore help you improve the LCP score of your website.

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Media Mobile Website Metrics 120

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

For example, you might share authentication in one Context, internationalization preferences in another, and website theme in another. Libraries like these handle cache locally, so whenever the state is already available they can leverage settings definition to either renew data or use from the local cache. error handler.

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Cache Servers Code Best Practices 106

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. IP Blocking. HTTP/S Certificate Filtering.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Best Practices When Writing Custom Directives. It is considered best practice not to directly access a state object. Instead, use the getter function because it can be mapped into any vue component using the mapGetters behaving like a computed property with the getters result cached based on its dependencies.

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Speed Processing Development Code 141

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Let’s explore.‍Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. Cache Poisoning - In cache poisoning attacks, attackers manipulate the CDN by multiple content requests. TLS certificates are typically installed and managed on the CDN's edge servers.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. Howard sat down with Rigor’s CTO Billy Hoffman to discuss best practices for holiday and peak-load readiness from a user experience and web performance perspective. Introducing…Rich Howard.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. Are you compressing and caching the right things? The best way to investigate the critical rendering path is to look at a waterfall chart for the page page. I love LEGO. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. And in doing that, we targeted a certain kind of website. Astro is very good for portfolio websites.

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Media Website Architecture Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. Conclusion.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 64

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! Five years later, we know that server push doesn’t really work in practice, streams and prioritization are often badly implemented , and, consequently, (reduced) resource bundling and even sharding are still good practices in some situations.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more importantly, to the detriment of their users and ultimately their business. This is often referred to as a cold cache.

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Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 109

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

To truly audit CSS, we would need to dig deeper and find places that are not considered best practices. It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. I would think twice before doing that as it might not be worthwhile, especially with today’s caching mechanisms.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers?

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