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

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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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Varnish cache buster add-on for Statamic

Abhishek Tiwari

Setting up Varnish for Statamic was quite easy and my website performance improved drastically ( you can see load and performance testing benchmarks here ). One of the biggest challenges was Varnish cache invalidation on content update.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

You can see the impact of that in practice by running a global TTFB test on a website. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil. We get good TTFB scores when testing from Brazil and the US East Coast. However, visitors from Europe, Asia, or Australia wait a while for the website to load.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

In order to begin optimizing your pages, you’ll need to see how your pages are currently performing. Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance.

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! We encourage you to test your site out on slower connection speeds as well!

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the response from the DNS is incorrect, you won’t be able to access the website. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning.

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