Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) on user experience and business metrics.
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Tag Archives: performance
All about Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Joshua Benton from Nieman Lab gives an introduction to the new open source approach from Google that looks to speed up mobile load times.
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.
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
Performance by Design
Nice little reminder on ensuring that the consideration of performance (benefits or impacts) is made during the web design and development process.
URL: https://medium.com/@eric_mobley/the-principals-of-performance-by-design-32d0a5306bbe
Redirects and SEO
Canonicalizaton of URLs (think www and no-www versions of the same site/page) using redirects as both an SEO and performance impact as explained in this article.
URL: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/redirect/
Automating Web Performance with mod_pagespeed
Google’s Developer Advocate and Web Performance engineer gives a full breakdown on the performance gains that you can achieve with Google’s mod_pagespeed Apache module that he contributed to.
URL: http://www.igvita.com/2012/10/10/automating-web-performance-with-mod_pagespeed/
Web Fonts – speed and beauty
Google developer advocate Ilya Grigorik explains how using Web Fonts doesn’t have to be a performance hurdle when it comes to making the web a pretty place to read.
URL: http://www.igvita.com/2012/09/12/web-fonts-performance-making-pretty-fast/