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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. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly. There is even some research that suggests using slow websites increases our blood pressure !) Below is a photo of one of the study participants.)

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance.

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The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates

Dotcom-Montior

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way.

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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. The most recent technology automatically shuts internet off whenever blacklisted URLs are accessed.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Smashing Magazine

When a new browser technology is released to a single browser, the open-source community usually releases a JavaScript polyfill to provide the same technology to the rest of the browsers. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. (dm,

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. import("path/to/myFunction.js").then((myFunction)

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