Wait!? I thought the Cloudflare’s CDN was good? Is it not responsible for fast loading times, server-side caching and local nodes, providing low response times? And is Cloudflare not the hero of the internet, saving us from DDOS attacks and securing our websites? I hate to tell you this… but no, Cloudflare is not that great. Slow First of all Cloudflare might slow down your website. Yup… not speed up, but slow down.| Blog articles on Usecue web development
Google will soon shame slow websites. A good reason to take a good look at your Google Lighthouse score right now. You might feel that it is nearly impossible to get to a perfect 100% score. You minified your Javascript, properly scaled your images and even combined some requests, but that did not help nearly enough. The problem is: you might be looking at it from the wrong angle. I build 100% scoring websites on a daily basis, so obviously it is very well possible to get a perfect score on a...| Usecue web development
In 2008 Google promised us websites that would load as quick as shooting a potato through a slicer with explosives. In other words, in one or two tenths of a second, or as I like to call it: ‘instantly’. Video of Chrome loading instantly and beating the potato gun. Their campaign revolved around the introduction of v8, a new Javascript engine. This turned out to be a game changer and made Chrome significantly faster than any other browser at the time. The campaign was a big hit and Chrome...| Usecue web development