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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). Moving computations from the browser to a backend service can reduce JavaScript download size, increase computation speed, and potentially cache the results for faster reuse. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin?

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. Here’s a breakdown of the moving pieces.

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

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Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies.

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A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites

Smashing Magazine

Case Study: Image Component In A Jamstack Site. As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable.

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