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300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time

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Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming

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Were React hooks a mistake?

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The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering

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A Visual Guide to React's useEffect (2021)

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Allow disabling of motion or animation

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Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)

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Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?

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Critical CSS? Not So Fast

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Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?

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Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It

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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)

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SPAs: theory versus practice

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The balance has shifted away from SPAs

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State is hard: why SPAs will persist

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Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end

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How to build an absurdly backwards-compatible website

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Self-host your static assets (2019)

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State of the Web: Static Site Generators

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Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance

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The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom

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GetElementById vs. QuerySelector

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Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)

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How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS

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How to win at CORS

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We increased our Lighthouse score by making our images larger

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HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript

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Why Prefetch Is Broken

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Why should I put my website to sleep?

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Making our new homepage fast and performant

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How we improved our website's performance

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js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.

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The mythical “fast” web page

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Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it

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In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

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Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)

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How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser

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Create No-JavaScript friendly sites

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Don't set the language of your website based on user location

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Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site

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Code to Write to Start a SaaS

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How to make a web app work offline

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Performant Front-End Architecture

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Moving towards a faster web

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Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first

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Performance metrics for web apps

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The history and legacy of jQuery

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Stop Infinite Scrolling

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How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage

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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages

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Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes

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Who has the fastest website in F1?

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Native image lazy-loading for the web

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Preload, prefetch and other link tags

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A guide to useEffect in React

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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast

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Analyzing the Walmart site performance

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Web Performance 101

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Problems with infinite scroll

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Inside look at modern web browser – part 4

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The search volume for "web app" spikes every September

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Conservative web development

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Building a Progressive Web App in React, using Firestore for offline support

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Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off

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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983

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Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets

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Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

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Optimizing our website at the millisecond level

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Turn your website into a Progressive Web App

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Developing for the mobile web is a constant headache

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A faster BBC News front page

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How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%

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Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience

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System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively

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Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned

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Why we use progressive enhancement to build Gov.uk

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Why Infinite Scrolling is probably a bad idea (2015)

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Regressive Web Apps

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Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking [pdf]

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Web fundamentals – performance

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Google recommends inlining small CSS

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More Responsive Tapping on iOS

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I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Making Netflix.com Faster

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Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015

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Everyone has JavaScript, right?

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Statements about the Mobile Web

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Non-blocking UI's with interface previews

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Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation

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You Don't Need JQuery

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Principles of Rich Web Applications

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An easier way of using polyfills

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Understanding web pages better

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Script-injected "async scripts" considered harmful

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Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries

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New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars

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Enough with the JavaScript already

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Are mobile web apps really slow?

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Server-side HTML vs. JS Widgets vs. Single-Page Web Apps

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Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices

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HTML5 Features you need to know

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Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers

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The HTML A element is broken

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HTML5 Mythbusting

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Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web

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A Primer on Hybrid Apps for iOS

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It's About The Hashbangs

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Application Cache Is A Douchebag

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Going Simple with JavaScript

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Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax

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Faster than jQuery(document).ready() - Wait Until Exists

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Its About The Hashbangs

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JavaScript and URLs

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HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, Native App Development An Oncoming Rocket Ship

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Learning from Twitter

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Mozilla’s Rejection of NativeClient Hurts the Open Web

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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms

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JQuery offline released

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Simple Lasts Longer

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Things engineers believe about Web development

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When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?

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