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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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A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering

Smashing Magazine

You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Repairing Magazine has a very peculiar business model. Repairing Magazine user interface relies on a modern JavaScript library, React. Let’s focus on a scenario very useful for blog owners: handling paid content.

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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

Let’s illustrate this with some snippets: let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; // The object can be accessed from the reference. // Overwrite the reference smashing. let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; let arr = [smashing]; // Overwrite the reference. smashing = null; console.log(array[0]) // {name: 'magazine'}.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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How To Choose A Headless CMS

Smashing Magazine

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. Many headless CMSes cache content retrieved via RESTful or GraphQL APIs. Look out for: Caching of images and content via CDN.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.