There are 10 results for "Performance"

The Top 5 Static Site Generators (SSGs) of 2021

This is evident in the rapid growth of Static Site Generators (SSGs) and changes to popular ranking algorithms like Google’s that have introduced Core Web Vitals which includes consideration of …
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ICP licenses for accelerating Chinese content

Without this, performance in China can be hit or miss – and often excruciatingly slow during peak hours.
The trouble is that content outside the country needs to go through the Great Firewall (GFW). …
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Fast websites in China – Optimizing delivery for great experiences

China is a rapidly growing market.
At the time of writing, this country contained:

  • 20% of the global population
  • 10% of the global wealth
  • A middle class of over 109 million people. According to a …
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Performance testing and optimization in a CI/CD environment

In this article we will introduce a few example tools and techniques specific to Jenkins, the most popular CI/CD automation tool.
What is CI/CD? CI/CD stands for continuous integration and continuous …
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Incorporating a range of performance tools into your optimization strategy

Note that I am a big advocate of using a wide range of these tools, and in combination. I also advocate setting more sophisticated performance goals above and beyond saying ‘we want our website to …
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Seasonal Readiness – Managing 3rd parties and integrations during peak events

Websites today do not work in isolation. Often they are a complicated mix of both first party assets and code as well as additional features and functionality provided by 3rd party vendors.
Common …
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10 possible reasons why your website is loading slowly

Here are some of the most common problems that we see when fixing website issues:

  1. You need to enable gzip or Brotli compression.
    Gzip compression, or the newer Brotli format, should be applied to …
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Cookies and Web Performance

What is a cookie? Cookies are small pieces of information sent from a web server and stored on your computer. They are used to contain identity and browser state information. They were introduced as a …
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10 things to consider when choosing a CDN

However, when you delve into the details you will find that there are some striking differences between the CDNs.
If you are going through the process of choosing a CDN, typically an organization will …
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Frontend SPoF (Single Point of Failure)

What is a Frontend SPoF (Single Point of Failure)? Single points of Failure (SPoF) occurs when a 3rd party asset is called and there was some problem delivering that asset. This in turn results in a …
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