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Jetpack Boost Handles Critical CSS For You
1.6.2021
Critical CSS is one of those things I see in my performance reports but always seem to ignore. I know what it means. It means to put only the CSS required to render things immediately visible in a <style>…
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How to Show Images on Click
27.5.2021
Most images on the web are superfluous. If I might be a jerk for a bit, 99% of them aren’t event that helpful at all (although there are rare exceptions). That’s because images don’t often complement the text they’re …
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South Africa Reserve Bank Commences Retail CBDC Feasibility Study
27.5.2021
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) says it has commenced a feasibility study for a general-purpose retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The study, which the SARB expects to conclude in 2022, will focus on the issuance of a domestic CBDC that can be used by consumers in South Africa...
Links on Performance
25.5.2021
Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows, like getBoundingClientRect. Also,
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The Humble `img` Element And Core Web Vitals
18.5.2021
Addy Osmani on images in HTML:
The humble <img> element has gained some superpowers over the years. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can
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Watch Dogs Legion's Next Update Will Add 60 FPS Performance Mode On PS5 And Xbox Series X
15.5.2021
In its upcoming 4.5 title update, Watch Dogs Legion will finally get a 6o FPS performance mode on next-gen consoles. The news was teased by Ubisoft in a blog post covering the last update for the open-world action game.Read more
Uniqly Enters the NFT Market With a Remarkable Performance
12.5.2021
It’s been a while since the crypto market has seen such a promising project, something that has a clear basis on a real market need and a long-term plan to stay relevant and bring value to customers, investors, and users alike. Uniqly.io aims to do exactly that, giving real-world value...
Gemini reports 'degraded performance' in key systems as ETH falls under $4,000
10.5.2021
The crypto exchange added that "all customer accounts and funds remain completely secure."
S&P Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ‘Crypto Mega Cap’ Indices
4.5.2021
S&P Global, the parent company of S&P Dow Jones Indices, has launched three cryptocurrency indices. One tracks the performance of bitcoin, another tracks the performance of ethereum, and the third measures the performance of both bitcoin and ether. 3 Crypto Indices Launched by S&P...
WebPageTest API
3.5.2021
I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, …
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BSCTrades: Designed and Built to Enhance Your Trading Performance on BSC Network
3.5.2021
Binance Smart Chain is currently the fastest growing blockchain network in the decentralized space that emerged as a savior for the Defi ecosystem and ERC-20 token traders amid significantly high transaction costs on the Ethereum network. As a result, a majority of the ERC-20 traders have been...
Fundstrat Briefing Maintains Six-Digit Bitcoin Price Forecast, $10K Ethereum Target
1.5.2021
Fundstrat Global Advisors’ most recent “Weekly Crypto Briefing” and the company’s lead digital asset strategist, David Grider, opines a target bitcoin price of $100k per coin is still “intact.” Moreover, Fundstrat believes that the price of ethereum will reach...
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Million-Dollar Bet: BTC or ETH to Outpace the S&P 500 in 10 Years
1.5.2021
The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. Cuban said on Twitter that the two should put $1 million into a stablecoin-based smart...
The Benefits of Coupling Ethereum With Bitcoin Cash: Smartbch Sidechain Testnet Is Now Public
30.4.2021
On Thursday, the Smart Bitcoin Cash team announced the launch of the Smartbch testnet explaining that developers and decentralized app makers can now experiment and develop with the high-performance, EVM-compatible Bitcoin Cash sidechain. Further, Bitcoin.com News spoke with Wang Kui the lead...
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