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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 Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Last year, Google made two significant changes to their search indexing and ranking algorithms : In March, indexing became based on the mobile version of a page , rather than desktop. Cache-Headers missing?

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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

REDIS for caching. If you’re an IT or cloud administrator, make sure to check out Dynatrace’s capabilities on monitoring k8s clusters , AWS , VMWare , OpenStack , Azure , Google GCP , OpenShift , CloudFoundry. 2: Automate Quality aka “Performance as a Self-Service”. NGINX as an API Gateway. 3 Log Analytics.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Core Web Vital Tooling

CSS - Tricks

I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests! cache things! And while those are all very related to web performance, they are abstractly related. Even though that’s good for performance for other reasons!

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Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks

CSS - Tricks

I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke around, and identify performance pain points to work on. Especially as it affects cached page loads too. Let’s dig in! Identified Problem #1) Poor LCP.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

The linked-up explainer provides more details, from how scores are weighted to why scores may fluctuate between test runs. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Large preview ) Did you notice that the Performance score in Lighthouse is different from that PSI screenshot?

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