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5 Tips To Make Google Fonts Faster

May 30, 2022 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Google Fonts is a fantastic tool for web designers and developers, but it is sometimes one of the slowest resources on your website. It’s frustrating and ironic that Google’s own font service is the long pole in so many web performance reports, but it doesn’t have to be! Here’s 5 ways to supercharge your install of Google Fonts to make it download less, load faster, and reduce layout shifts of your website.
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Using Brotli Compression in NGINX

May 23, 2022 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Brotli is gaining steam as the compression algorithm du jour for high performance websites. Created back in 2013 by Google to decrease the size of WOFF files, Brotli was standardized in 2016 as part of RFC 7932. The sales pitch for Brotli is better compression than Gzip - with similar CPU usage. Better compression leads to faster performance, but how much better is it?
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HTTP/3 is Fast

Nov 29, 2021 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
HTTP/3 is here, and it’s a big deal for web performance. See just how much faster it makes websites! Wait, wait, wait, what happened to HTTP/2? Wasn’t that all the rage only a few short years ago? It sure was, but there were some problems. To address them, there’s a new version of the venerable protocol working its way through the standards track. Ok, but does HTTP/3 actually make things faster? It sure does, and we’ve got the benchmarks to prove it.
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Using HTTP Caching: 2022 Guide

Nov 19, 2021 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
The fastest website is the website that is already loaded, and that’s exactly what we can do with HTTP caching. HTTP caching lets web browsers reuse of previously loaded resources, like pages, images, JavaScript, and CSS. It’s a powerful tool to improve your web performance, but misconfiguration can cause big performance problems. Here’s what you need to know to use HTTP caching without reading hundreds of pages of HTTP Caching Spec.
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Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring

Nov 10, 2021 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Synthetic Testing and Real User Monitoring are the most important tools in your performance toolbox. But they do different things and are useful at different times and many developers only spend time mastering one of these tools and only see a part of their performance problems, like trying to hammer in a screw. Let’s look at these tools, what they measure, and when to use them.
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Observable Web Applications

Nov 1, 2021 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Users don’t see your distributed services, cloud architecture, or instrumentation—they only see how the web app is working. Understanding their experience in the client-side is the first step towards understanding the rest of the system. We’ll explore how to make your client-side applications more observable through error tracking, web performance, and usage analytics. With better understanding of real-user experience, you’ll better understand the real behavior of your systems.
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Request Metrics Released! What We Got Right.

Sep 29, 2021 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
It's been a long time since we produced a new Request Metrics video and we wanted to give an update! Things have been going well and the product is out there! We made some good choices. Some not so good choices. And we've made many enhancements since launch. Watch Part 1 of our Request Metrics Released series to see how things are going, and what we did right!
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