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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

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In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. A content delivery network (CDN) is an excellent solution to the problem.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

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Connecting to a server on the web typically takes three round trips on the network: DNS: Looking up the server IP address. What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

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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

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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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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

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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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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

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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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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

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The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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