Find out our dedicated font optimizations

January 31, 2019Features / Evolutions, Tech tips
font optimizations

In our article Webperf: Optimizing font loading, we demonstrated the impact that font loading can have on site performance.
In particular, we noticed that the Speed Index and the Start Render fell by an average of 5 to 10% when fonts were not loaded.

When it comes to font optimization, the tool that’s generally recommended is Font-Squirrel. It’s a fantastic tool, but it does have the drawback of being manual. So we decided to retain its best features to develop our own automatic font optimization engine.
Here, we’ll cover:

  1. generating fonts in WOFF2 format
  2. automatically updating the CSS @font-face declaration
  3. adding the font-display property
  4. minifying fonts via the subsetting technique
  5. font autohinting for better visual rendering in Windows
  6. optimizing loading of Google Fonts

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Cache warming – why and how?

January 31, 2019Tech tips
cache warming

In this article, we’re going to help you tackle the tricky problem of cache warming. We’ll approach it from a general viewpoint first before going into detail about the measures we’ve put in place at Fasterize.

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TLS 1.3, the new and more efficient version of secure web

December 6, 2018Tech tips
TLS 1.3

In August 2018, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved the 1.3 version of TLS, a more secure and more efficient version. It gives a specific response to vulnerabilities that have appeared in recent years. More so, TLS 1.3 promises reduced connection latency thanks to less round-trips and the 0-RTT option.

Here is all you need to know about one of the most important changes of the web at the moment. What are the differences with older versions? How is the TLS 1.3 version better than TLS 1.2? What does this actually mean for you and your users?

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Insight: compare your website’s speed with and without Fasterize

December 5, 2018E-business, Features / Evolutions, Tech tips

Have you heard about Insight, the Fasterize solution that allows you to analyse rapidly and for free the speed of your website? Thanks to Insight, you could be taking the first step towards the optimization of your web performance: a preliminary diagnosis which is essential to make your website faster, improve the user experience and thus generate more business. Here's how and why you should use it without moderation.

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5 best practice tips for a successful Black Friday

November 19, 2018Tech tips
Black Friday Fasterize

There was a 48% increase in transactions recorded in 2017, in comparison to 2016*. According to Google, “Black Friday” queries were up 125% in 2017, and 46% of people who made purchases on Black Friday 2017 say they took advantage of promotions to do their Christmas shopping early. Black Friday has therefore officially become the most important day for online retailers. The retail high season has begun! So, nothing must be left to chance.

Performance is now users’ no. 1 priority (even more so as they browse from their mobile). What’s the use in optimizing content that has trouble loading?
To put the odds on your side and improve your conversion rate (desktop and mobile), our technical team shares its 5 best practice tips for web performance.

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How to organise your teams for maximum web performance

February 20, 2018Tech tips
From users to marketing teams to CTOs, all would agree that loading speed is crucial for your web site. (Like many, has your CEO has also been asking why your web site is running slow as you’ve passed them in the corridor…?)
Setting up and maintaining a fast web site can be a hotly debated issue: should preference be given to in-house development, and where will it fit in an already busy development schedule?

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Smart image optimisations to boost your web site

January 3, 2018Features / Evolutions, Tech tips

It is often difficult to get the right trade-off between image quality and loading speed.
The ideal solution would be for each image to be adapted on a user-by-user basis: be that clipping it perfectly to the user's device screen, stripping metadata of any unnecessary information or, of course, ensuring that it is displayed with optimum image quality. But achieving this soon becomes something of a black art.

Given this challenge, our technical team has pored over the plethora of best practices and advanced libraries out there to ensure that Fasterize implements the very best in image compression algorithms.
In this article, we present an overview of the various methods used.

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4 crucial speed boosts for your HTTPS-enabled web site

August 8, 2017Tech tips
HTTPS optimisations

TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypts traffic to and from a web site, thereby preventing other parties from eavesdropping on your data. However, adding this safeguard to your web site introduces greater complexity and affects how the site interacts with your visitors. TLS can therefore lead to slow page loading times and have a negative impact on user experience. In this article, we introduce the various optimisations implemented by Fasterize at the TLS security layer to ensure your web site remains slick while maximising security.

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