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Revisiting ‘The Best Request is No Request’

Stefan Baumgartner from DynaTrace discusses the old approach of resource optimization in HTTP/1 vs request optimizations for HTTP2

URL: https://alistapart.com/article/the-best-request-is-no-request-revisited

Tags: article http/2 sitespeed
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How and why to get 2s page loads

The dev team at Capital One walk through their approach to providing the fastest user experience possible.

URL: https://medium.com/@puppybits/letting-people-in-the-door-how-and-why-to-get-page-loads-under-2-seconds-340c487bd81d

Tags: article case study web-performance
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Kinsta’s Page Speed tutorial

Slightly WordPress centric, but great introduction and tutorial on one page about page speed.

URL: https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/

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Optimising your <HEAD>

Nate Berkopec is back with a great set of tactics for optimising all those parts in your HTML <head>

URL: http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/10/21/hacking-head-tags-for-speed-and-profit.html

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Ludicrously Fast Page Loads

Great extensive write-up on how to use Google Chrome Developer Tools’ timeline function to isolate bottlenecks and then addressing them. 

URL: http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/10/07/frontend-performance-chrome-timeline.html

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Beginner’s Guide to Website Speed Optimization

Comprehensive article from Kinsta on the reasons why page speed is important, how to measure and how to optimize.

URL: https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/

Tags: article speed tips wordpress
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Fixing Performance in the Web Stack

Nicolas Bevacqua writes a comprehensive guide to fixing performance issues by looking at each layer of the web stack.

URL: http://ponyfoo.com/articles/fixing-web-performance

Tags: article performance
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More Weight doesn’t mean more Wait

Scott Jehl from the Filament group explains how perceived load times is a separate consideration to actual page weight.

URL: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/weight-wait.html

Tags: article load times speed
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The Google Gospel of Speed

From 2012, this article from Google’s SVP of Infrastructure, Urs Hoelzle, outline’s the search giant’s focus on Speed.

URL: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/the-google-gospel-of-speed-urs-hoelzle.html

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HTTP/2 and Performance

Great article from the speed-kings at Zoompf on how HTTP/2 (aka SPDY) can solve some critical performance issues.

URL: http://zoompf.com/blog/2015/01/http2-fast-secure-bedrock-future-seo

Tags: article http/2 performance

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