Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

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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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over. Large preview ). Government.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. This lets us update our client-side cache immediately with consistent data.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls. Large preview ). This is not a debate about dynamic vs. static.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

It is based on a caching strategy called “stale while revalidate”, meaning a page can be “stale” with old information until it’s re-generated and the cache is updated. When the non-built pages are requested for the first time, they are built and cached at the edge so they don’t need to be built again.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. “ How To Maintain A Large Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views. The message that appears above a cached search result in Google’s search service. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Examples of this might be, expecting that the HTML is fully static, such that we can cache it downstream in some deterministic manner — “partially dynamic” HTML bodies are much more likely to be handled incorrectly by caching logic. Here are a few that come to mind: Is this request served from the service worker cache?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache. — FAQ, Google Fonts. Further Optimization Is Possible.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. navigator.share({ title: 'Smashing Magazine', text: 'Web development news and tutorials', url: '[link] }). Two embeds. Description. JS (uncached). Single embed. Two embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Your application might also suffer from caching, and performance issues. They handle a lot of things like caching and performance which are difficult to manage on your own. These packages will fetch and cache async data from your back-end API endpoints and make your application state much more maintainable.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Another benefit of moving computations from browsers to servers is that the results of these computations can often be cached and reused between sessions even for unrelated visitors, thus reducing per-session execution time dramatically. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Because service workers exist outside of the web browser and are not contingent on the speed of the user’s network, they load cached content for visitors more quickly.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? It also points out a too complex HTML structure, and it also checks your server and cache header configuration. Three Front-End Auditing Tools I Discovered Recently. Stefan Judis. 2021-06-10T11:15:00+00:00. 2021-06-10T12:51:06+00:00. Is every resource properly minified and compressed?

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. But that’s not what I really want to talk about. With performance at the forefront of my mind, I decided to head over to MDN for a fresh look at the Performance API.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. NB: Smashing members have access to a beautifully designed PDF of Andy’s Inspired Design Decisions magazine and full code examples from this article. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Read More From The Series. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. CrUX is what fuels PSI and Google Search Console, but it is also available in other tools you may already use.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

So, to improve the TTFB, we need to speed up that process or cache the HTML so we can skip the HTML generation entirely. In this example, we can see that creating the server connection doesnt take all that long. Most of the time is spent waiting for the server to generate the page HTML.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. Their primary role is to store (or “cache”) copies of web content — like HTML pages, JavaScript files, and multimedia content — and deliver it to users based on their geographic location.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It offers a robust content delivery network (CDN) out of the box , which serves two purposes: (1) optimizing image assets and (2) caching them. Let’s see the query caching in action.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. Large preview ). We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Client-Side Caching. Caching is the process of storing the results of a computation or request so that they can be accessed repeatedly more quickly. In Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. Upon receipt of a valid Alt-Svc header indicating HTTP/3 support, the browser will cache this and try to set up a QUIC connection from then on.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. zero-config caching layer. As you can see above, the useSWR hook provides a lot of abstractions: a default fetcher. error handler. loading handler.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. You might think of a prefetch as being a bit like adding a file to the browser’s cache. For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. For example, an “On-Demand Builder” is a serverless function dedicated to serving a cached file. Netlify then caches that page on its edge CDN for each additional call. Large preview ). More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This video game-like environment goes through the service worker lifecycle, intercepting requests, working with caches, and more. Service Workies is an interactive adventure game to learn various features for developing Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Image source: Service Workies ). Tools To Learn Miscellaneous Web Dev Skills.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. If you cannot avoid having third-party fonts on your site, consider using font-display properties in your CSS.

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