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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Images. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. A website that is accessed in China for the first time will have a slow loading time due to this process.

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The 5 Most Underrated WebPageTest Features

MachMetrics

However, it is equally important to test how your website performs on slower devices and internet connections, so this information is incredibly useful. Need to speed test a website that lives behind a login? Want to see how performant your e-commerce check-out process is? WebPageTest Scripting.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

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. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Smashing Magazine

Please note that vanilla-lazyload uses the IntersectionObserver API under the hood, so you would need to polyfill it on Internet Explorer and less recent versions of Safari. media="(min-width: 1200px)". media="(min-width: 800px)". Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). loading="lazy".

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert.

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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Waiting time.