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Image Optimization Strategies Compared (Sponsored)
30.4.2021
We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive...
How to Monitor Core Web Vitals and Take Action with Raygun
29.4.2021
Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your site, which takes 2 seconds, and now you’ve got monitoring in place. Why? Well now …
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Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Updates That Hit Game Performance
27.4.2021
Last week, the Windows 10 updates KB5000842 and KB5001330 made a bit more of a fuss than usual, because they were found to be at the heart of several gaming-related performance issues across various games and graphics cards.Read more
How to Improve CSS Performance
19.4.2021
There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why:
When there is CSS available for a page, whether it’s inline or an external stylesheet, the browser delays rendering
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NFT Performance Art: Corporations Could Capitalize On Protest
19.4.2021
Petr Davydtchenko. _______
Lowell Gasoi, Instructor in communication studies, arts advocacy, Carleton University.
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Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made what what he claims was the first performance art NFT in February. According to an article in The Art Newspaper, in a digital recording...
Anchoring the worlds with flexible and high-performance on-chain governance
11.4.2021
To fully merge the real and digital worlds, designing governance systems with flexibility at their core is key
English Football Club Signs Sponsorship Deal That Includes Option of Being Paid Bonuses in Bitcoin
9.4.2021
Southampton Football Club, a soccer team currently ranked 13th in England’s Premier League, recently signed a new sponsorship deal that includes an option for the club to be paid certain performance-based bonuses in bitcoin. The deal also extends the club’s partnership with...
Space Jam
6.4.2021
It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. We could have saw that coming. Everything is …
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Fixing a slow site iteratively
1.4.2021
Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. A 2017 study by Akamai says as …
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Tricking WCV
30.3.2021
Google has said that Web Core Vitals (WCV) are going to be an SEO factor, and the date is nigh: May 2021. So, I’m seeing some scrambling to make sure those metrics are good. Ya know, the acronym …
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Tools for Auditing CSS
29.3.2021
Auditing CSS is not a common task in a developer’s everyday life, but sometimes you just have to do it. Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Perhaps is part of effort …
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Fidelity Applies to Launch Bitcoin ETF Amid Accelerating Institutional Demand for BTC
25.3.2021
Fidelity has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETF will track the price of bitcoin as measured by the performance of the Fidelity Bitcoin Index. Fidelity Seeks SEC’s Approval Launch a Bitcoin ETF FD Funds...
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap
18.3.2021
Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile:
[…] CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers’ rosy resource assumptions. If there is unambiguously good news on the tooling front,
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JP Morgan Launching Crypto Investment Product Tracking Public Company Stocks With Bitcoin Exposure
10.3.2021
JP Morgan is launching a structured investment product based on the performance of its “Cryptocurrency Exposure Basket,” which tracks stocks of publicly traded companies with exposure to cryptocurrencies. The weight of each stock is “determined based in part on exposure...
9 Useful WordPress Plugins For Your 2021 Projects
24.2.2021
A collection of high-quality WordPress plugins that will take your site's performance and functionality to a higher level.
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How ImageEngine can Optimize Contentful CMS For Faster Web Performance
18.2.2021
In this article, we will review how ImageEngine’s API can transform images better than the native API of Contentful.
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‘Fair Launch’ tokens outshine the average coin's performance
17.2.2021
Data from Messari shows the top 20 “Fair Launch tokens” are outperforming both the top 1,000 crypto assets and Ethereum-based assets on average this year so far
Mexican Companies Are Willing to Join the Bitcoin Bandwagon in the Wake of Tesla’s Investment, Says Expert
17.2.2021
Bitcoin-buying frenzy among major companies could hit Mexican firms soon, as interest keeps increasing across the country. An expert is expecting that local businesses will follow the same path as mainstream U.S.-based companies such as Tesla. Current Bitcoin Performance Could Make Companies...
Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021
16.2.2021
Malte Ubl’s list for:
8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Fluid width images in CSS, not forgetting the height and width attributes
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Some Performance Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
3.2.2021
Back/forward cache — I always assumed browsers just do fancy stuff with the back/forward buttons and us developers had very little control. Philip Walton tells us it’s critical that we understand “what makes pages eligible (and ineligible) for bfcache to
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