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Users' patience has grown thinner, and they tend to leave websites that take too long to load. Wh...
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🚀 Optimizing website performance is more crucial than ever! 💻 Users demand speedy experiences, and slow-loading sites can lead to frustration and drop-offs. 🕐 This insightful article on Hackmamba breaks down the importance of Page Load Times (PLT) and Server Response Times (SRT). 💡
Often underestimated is the round trip time (RTT), as this might easily multiply. Assume you store your page setup in a database. Before you can query the setup, you need to perform multiple requests:
As you might see, this ping-pong game can add a new Round trip on each step it performs.
Browsers usually use a preload scanner to find external resources. So, they can start to load files before even the page is evaluated (See here or here for more details). Even if you don´t need a file, it might be useful to put a reference in the main HTML file to start preloading it. It might stay in the cache and be ready if you need it later.
It is very important to understand this relations to speed up your pages.