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Site Optimization Framework To Boost Your Website Performance Using AEM

DZone

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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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. Lets jump right in!

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

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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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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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

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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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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