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Web Page Usability Matters

Web Page Usability Matters

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State of the Web: Animated GIFs

State of the Web: Animated GIFs

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Accelerate your website with Nginx as a reverse proxy cache

Accelerate your website with Nginx as a reverse proxy cache

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We reduced our vendor.js from 210kb to 16kb in about five minutes of work and ten lines of code

We reduced our vendor.js from 210kb to 16kb in about five minutes of work and ten lines of code

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Wielding the power of web transparency

Wielding the power of web transparency

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Speed up next-page navigations with prefetching

Speed up next-page navigations with prefetching

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Lazy Loading Images - The Complete Guide

Lazy Loading Images - The Complete Guide

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Addy Osmani's 18-Point Web Performance Checklist

Addy Osmani's 18-Point Web Performance Checklist

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Front End Development Automation. Part 4

Front End Development Automation. Part 4

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[Video] Using ML to improve performance with predictive fetching

[Video] Using ML to improve performance with predictive fetching

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[Video] The State of HTTP Headers with Andrew Betts

[Video] The State of HTTP Headers with Andrew Betts

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A step by step guide to monitoring the competition with the Chrome UX Report

A step by step guide to monitoring the competition with the Chrome UX Report

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8 new CDN edge locations

8 new CDN edge locations

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One hosts file to block them all

One hosts file to block them all

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Why Web Performance Optimization matters and What You can do

Why Web Performance Optimization matters and What You can do

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Web cache server HTTP/2 performance benchmark: nuster vs nginx

Web cache server HTTP/2 performance benchmark: nuster vs nginx

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[Dogfooding] How Dareboost has benefited from Custom Timings

[Dogfooding] How Dareboost has benefited from Custom Timings

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How to improve web performance By using(Preload, Preconnect, Prefetch)

How to improve web performance By using(Preload, Preconnect, Prefetch)

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State of the Web: Top Image Optimization Strategies

State of the Web: Top Image Optimization Strategies

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I Have Beef With Accelerated Mobile Pages

I Have Beef With Accelerated Mobile Pages

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How to Improve Web performance🤘🤘🚩🔜

How to Improve Web performance🤘🤘🚩🔜

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Service Workers at Cloudflare

Service Workers at Cloudflare

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The hidden components of Web Caching

The hidden components of Web Caching

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Back to static with JAMStack: a paradigm shift for better UX and web performance

Back to static with JAMStack: a paradigm shift for better UX and web performance

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Gzip a file in Ruby

Gzip a file in Ruby

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So your boutique dev shop needs to handle Super Bowl ad traffic?

So your boutique dev shop needs to handle Super Bowl ad traffic?

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SVG-based image lazyloading as a matter of enjoyable UX

SVG-based image lazyloading as a matter of enjoyable UX

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Web Performance Fundamentals: what is the Speed Index?

Web Performance Fundamentals: what is the Speed Index?

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Safari now supports Service Workers: What this means (to me at least)

Safari now supports Service Workers: What this means (to me at least)

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next.js at Chotot

next.js at Chotot

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Optimize your MP4 video for better performance

Optimize your MP4 video for better performance

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Defer scripts to speed up rendering

Defer scripts to speed up rendering

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Optimize Images to Reduce Page Weight: File Formats, Tools and RWD

Optimize Images to Reduce Page Weight: File Formats, Tools and RWD

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Safari's implementation of srcset is buggy, rendering the whole feature basically useless

Safari's implementation of srcset is buggy, rendering the whole feature basically useless

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Pursuing Speed, Pt. 3

Pursuing Speed, Pt. 3

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Ensure secured connections with HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)

Ensure secured connections with HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)

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🚀 Introducing Lozad.js: Performant & light lazy loading library

🚀 Introducing Lozad.js: Performant & light lazy loading library

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Steps to mitigate 503 errors on dev.to

Steps to mitigate 503 errors on dev.to

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React Reconciliation Rendering Order

React Reconciliation Rendering Order

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Improving Google PageSpeed Score

Improving Google PageSpeed Score

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Web Performance with Android's Battery-Saver Mode - A Review

Web Performance with Android's Battery-Saver Mode - A Review

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What it Takes to Render a Complex Web App in Milliseconds

What it Takes to Render a Complex Web App in Milliseconds

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The Business 💰 Value of Speed 🏎 - A How-To Guide - Part 2: Metrics and mapping of Business Values

The Business 💰 Value of Speed 🏎 - A How-To Guide - Part 2: Metrics and mapping of Business Values

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You decide: ➡️ About what topic of web performance should my next blog post be ❓✍️

You decide: ➡️ About what topic of web performance should my next blog post be ❓✍️

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The Business 💰 Value of Speed 🏎 - A How-To Guide - Part 1: The Critical Rendering Path

The Business 💰 Value of Speed 🏎 - A How-To Guide - Part 1: The Critical Rendering Path

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Webpack style-loader, what does it cost?

Webpack style-loader, what does it cost?

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Interview With Alex Pareto from Brex – Scaling, Thundering Herd Problem, Dev Tools, Elixir and Functional Programming

Interview With Alex Pareto from Brex – Scaling, Thundering Herd Problem, Dev Tools, Elixir and Functional Programming

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SiteSpeed optimization Tools

SiteSpeed optimization Tools

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Can I use service workers for my website?

Can I use service workers for my website?

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User-Agent Client-Hints Privacy Concerns

User-Agent Client-Hints Privacy Concerns

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Content Performance Policy, an alternative to AMP?

Content Performance Policy, an alternative to AMP?

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How to leverage a CDN to improve your organic rankings

How to leverage a CDN to improve your organic rankings

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My web performance experiment - a speed field trial

My web performance experiment - a speed field trial

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How do you analyze websites? 🔍

How do you analyze websites? 🔍

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How to Estimate Web Performance Impact Before Making Fixes

How to Estimate Web Performance Impact Before Making Fixes

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Web Workers in Action: When to use them?

Web Workers in Action: When to use them?

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Web Design vs Web Development

Web Design vs Web Development

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Speed Matters: Designing for Mobile Performance - A summary

Speed Matters: Designing for Mobile Performance - A summary

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Why do webpages take so long to load even though I have fast internet?

Why do webpages take so long to load even though I have fast internet?

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Using requestIdleCallback to create a less janky infinite scroll

Using requestIdleCallback to create a less janky infinite scroll

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