As more and more customers use high bandwidth networks, video has become the norm on the web. Streaming movies, YouTube, and Facebook Live now all stream right onto your phone. Video is shown to enhance engagement, so we should not expect that the growth of video will abate. To better understand how video is … Continue reading Video on the Mobile Web: A Performance Study
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It is pretty well regarded in the Web performance community that compressing text files (with algorithms like Gzip or Brotli) ensures that they download faster. Gzip (in general) compresses text files 5-8x smaller, and Brotli's compression is (generally) better than Gzip. WebpageTest grades your website's use of text compression at the top of every report: If … Continue reading Text Compression Really Works To Speed Your App!