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How CMSs impact loading times

What Content Management System (CMS) should you choose to guarantee the optimum load time for your website’s pages? Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Prestashop, WooCommerce, Magento, WordPress, Hybris, or a home-made platform... Looking beyond what each promises to bring, is there such a thing as the perfect CMS when it comes to speed?

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Early-Hint: how to preload non-cacheable assets from a page

Maybe you’ve already heard people talking about Early Hint? Or perhaps the HTTP 103 code? This feature, which is currently being standardized by the W3C, can be used to preload page resources even before receiving the first byte of content. Unfortunately, currently, HTTP 103 is very rarely used by browsers, despite the benefits it offers in terms of loading speed. To address this, our technical team has developed an optimization that allows our customers to preload a non-cacheable page’s resources – we’d like to introduce you to Early Hint!

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Understand and improve the Time To Interactive

Time To InteractiveThe perception of a website’s loading speed is an experience that no metric can fully encapsulate. During the loading process, several stages can have an impact on this perception. During the browser loading experience, several steps can affect it. To evaluate the loading speed of your pages, several indicators should be observed - including Start Render and Speed Index. But although these can be used to measure the speed at which a page displays, they don’t allow you to assess a page’s level of interactivity, which is a key aspect in the user experience. To do this, you need to optimize your Time To Interactive (TTI).

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Traffic Limiter: enable an overflow page in case of traffic spike

When you’re holding Sales promotions or on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, or any trafic peak or laod peak period, an overflow page – or traffic easing system – allows you to define a maximum number of active sessions to keep your servers up and running, thus minimizing the loss of potential customers. This feature, which we call Traffic Limiter on our platform, is available for all our users, and is easy to enable from the dashboard.

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Find out our dedicated font optimizations

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?

cache warming

How to tackle the tricky problem of cache warming? Let's see the differences between Cache hit and Cache miss, the pros and cons of cache warming, and what we have implemented via our engine.

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Measuring web performance and loading speed: Synthetic vs. Real User Monitoring

There are two methods to measure web performance: Synthetic Monitoring (which is used for Lab data in Google tools) and Real User Monitoring (which is used for Field data in Google tools). Often opposed, they complete each other. 

In this article, let’s take a look at these two methods for web performance monitoring. What are they about? What are they used for? How to use them effectively? What do you need to know to use them properly?

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

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

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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