The Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX for short) addresses this gap by providing aggregate data from real users across the top sites on the web. With it, you can confidently perform a competitive analysis of sites knowing that the data is backed by real user experiences.

Techniques for faster rendering

So which method should you use to load your webfonts? Unfortunately the answer is it depends:

• If you’re looking for a quick and simple method you can have working within an hour, use Amazon’s method
• If you want something a bit more thorough and are alright with the limited browser support for now, try using font-display: optional
• And if you really want to make an effort to optimize your webfont loading, take the dive and look into the localStorage technique

The journey to Thumbor, part 3: Development and deployment strategy

"At trivago, we are using Memcached mostly as our caching layer. We have a cache interface that “hides” the logic, so we (the developers) don’t have to think much about its implementation just to know how the interface works."

"By utilizing a collection of UI patterns and speed optimisation techniques, you can improve not only the actual speed of a site, but the perception of how quickly a user thinks your site is loading."