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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 Cache This is the easy one. What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️

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Site Optimization Framework To Boost Your Website Performance Using AEM

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Insufficient dispatcher caching. Lack of browser caching. Solution — Site Optimization Framework shows how to boost your website performance. Lack of CDN. Too many scripts loaded on-page and loaded at top of the page. CSS loaded throughout the page instead of in the HTML head. Unoptimized taxonomy and DAM assets.

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Cache Grab: How Much Are You Leaving on the Table?

CSS Wizardry

For the longest time now, I have been obsessed with caching. I think every developer of any discipline would agree that caching is important, but I do tend to find that, particularly with web developers, gaps in knowledge leave a lot of opportunities for optimisation on the table. Want to know everything (and more) about HTTP cache?

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How to Create a Simple and Efficient PHP Cache

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When working on PHP websites made from scratch and without a framework, speed can often be an issue. Caching is extremely useful in order to speed up PHP webpages. In this article, I’ll show you how to make a simple PHP caching system for your web pages.

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The Challenges of Ajax CDN

DZone

For the longest time, hosting static files on CDNs was the de facto standard for performance tuning website pages. The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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From Caching to CDN: How To Decide Which Way to Go

DZone

In an attempt to speed up their websites, owners are ready to take various measures. When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading. There are two effective methods to improve the load time — data caching and using a content delivery network (CDN).

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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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