Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

This means that you can reduce latency and speed up your content delivery times , regardless of where your customers are based. You might have experience with speed testing tools like Pingdom, which assess your website performance. A content delivery network (CDN) is an excellent solution to the problem.

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Traffic Website Design Cache 86

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

Large preview ) While browsers are generally pretty fast, these steps still take time to load, typically in seconds, and even longer on slower, high-latency network connections. Web developers should learn to use various testing tools such as Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Homepage of a default Drupal site using the Umami theme.

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Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. Even then, however, validating protocol performance with the current generation of tools won’t be easy. Tools and Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Keep in mind that a good performance picture covers a set of performance metrics, lab data and field data : Synthetic testing tools collect lab data in a reproducible environment with predefined device and network settings (e.g. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145