This article is part of a series on building a sample application — a multi-image gallery blog — for performance benchmarking and optimizations. (View the repo here.)As we can see in this report, our site’s landing page loads very quickly and generally scores well, but it could use another layer of ...
Cloudflare is an industry leader in the content-delivery space, reducing load and speeding up millions of websites.What is peculiar about this provider is that it didn’t start as speed-up/performance tool, but was instead born from Project Honeypot, which was conceived as a spam and hacking protection service. ...
The Vary HTTP header is sent in billions of HTTP responses every day. But its use has never fulfilled its original vision, and many developers misunderstand what it does or don’t even realize that their web server is sendin...
Ben Maurer & Nate Schloss:The browser’s reload button exists to allow the user to get an updated version of the current page. In order to meet this goal, when you reload, browsers revalidate the page that you are currently on, even if that page hasn’t expired yet. However, they also go a step further...
This article demonstrates how you implement a local cache of fetched requests so that if done repeatedly it reads from session storage instead. The advantage of this is that you don’t need to have custom code for each resource you want cached. Follow along if you want to look really cool at your next JavaScript d...
We previously looked at some essential Grav plugins with which to round off the installation of a personal blog. In this post, we’ll take a look at some additional, advanced plugins, as well as other tweaks we can apply.Related Pages Once a blog has enough posts, user retention becomes more difficult – as...
Editor’s Note: Today marks a special day for WordPress. Powering many websites (and yes, Smashing Magazine is one of them), it celebrates its 13th birthday today. Happy birthday, dear WordPress! Here’s to many more! Do you remember when you could run a “fast” WordPress website with ju...
Varnish Cache is an open source HTTP accelerator that is used for speeding up the content delivery of the world’s top content-heavy dynamic websites. However, the performance or speed a newcomer to Varnish Cache can expect from its deployment can be quite nebulous.This is true for users at bo...
Munee is an asset management tool which can compile LESS, SCSS, or CoffeeScript, manipulate images, minify CSS and JS, and cache assets on the server and client on the fly. It works with PHP 5.3 and newer versions.In this tutorial, we will learn how Munee makes it easy to include assets in templates, how to install i...
Today, performance is one of the most important metrics you need to evaluate when developing a web service. Keeping customers engaged is critical to any company, especially startups, and for this reason it is extremely important to improve the performances and reduce page load times. When running a web server that inte...
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