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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. Caching can help your website combat this issue. Lets jump right in!

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

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However, if your content isnt dynamic, you can also cache responses at the CDN edge node. If we run a TTFB test on a website that uses a CDN, we can see that each server response comes from a regional data center close to where the request was made. By default, the actual HTML request still has to be sent to your web app.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. 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. Jack Lenox. Large preview ).

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

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As websites become heavier and more complex , the task of maintaining performance becomes ever more challenging. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

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This is a great feature of Google Fonts, by checking the user-agent they are able to serve the most performant formats to browsers that support those, while still displaying the fonts consistently on older browsers. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control.

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How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

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In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. And there are other aspects of framework usage that can impact performance as well. I assume that caching, both in the browser and CDNs, contributes to this as well.

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