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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

Latency is a key limiting factor on the web: given that most assets fetched by webpages are relatively small (compared to, say, downloading a software update or streaming a movie), we find that most experiences are latency-bound rather than bandwidth-bound. The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms. Injection A query or command that inserts untrusted data into the interpreter, causing it to generate unintended commands or expose data.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

Each font carries a weight that the web browser needs to download before they can be displayed. If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. — Ilya Grigorik, Web Font Optimization.

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Mbps upload.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

On 4G the comparable daytime numbers were 130 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload (4G does better at night when the network is less congested, with 200/100 upload/download Mbps). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

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HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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A font-display setting for slow connections

CSS - Tricks

Matt Hobbs : If there’s one thing I’d like readers to take away from this post it’s that font-display: swap is a very good option for users with a fast internet connection. The font is either applied super fast, or isn’t used at all (but still downloaded async). Seeeee, I told ya.

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