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23 August 2022

⚡ 108: Can browsers help load third-party resources?

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#### Editor’s note
 

In the last few years, tooling available in browsers to analyse and profile web performance has exploded. We also have a wide range of open source and paid tooling available on multiple platforms to help us with specific areas and issues.

But, since performance often happens in the browser, the question remains: can vendors do even more to optimise the fetch and render process? I think yes, but these are not easy waters to thread. We might be looking at lengthy timeframes between establishing inevitably opinionated strategies for optimal performance to shipping stable versions. Still, getting more built-in tools and documented processes directly in browser internals can be invaluable.

We already have fast browsers. Now, let’s get to browsers enforcing fast sites and apps!

 

 
Karolina
 
 
 
 
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# Articles  
 
visualization from thirdpartyweb.today shows third-parties with the largest performance impact at present
 
### [Can browsers optimize the loading of third-party resources?](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/third-party-scripts/)
 
[Addy Osmani](https://twitter.com/addyosmani)
Why do we keep talking about third-party optimisation? Learn the impact of third parties, the most common types, and what tools the Chrome team is considering adding at the browser level to help.
 
PageSpeed Insights screenshot showing histograms of LCP rating page loads
 
### [Why is CrUX data different from my RUM data?](https://web.dev/crux-and-rum-differences/)
 
[Barry Pollard](https://twitter.com/tunetheweb)
Even speed monitoring tools that look the same on the surface *might* measure speed differently. Understand how common real user monitoring tools differ from Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
 
Benchmark results of how each generator stacks up when consuming markdown files from the local project’s file system and building into a production-ready project
 
### [Which Generator builds Markdown the fastest?](https://www.zachleat.com/web/build-benchmark/)
 
[Zach Leatherman](https://twitter.com/zachleat)
Markdown is a popular format for content authoring. While it seems simple, can it become slow to generate based on framework choice? Let’s find out!
 
### [How to skew benchmarks in your favour](https://marvinh.dev/blog/benchmarks/)
 
[Marvin Hagemeister](https://twitter.com/marvinhagemeist)
Benchmarking is not easy yet heavily popularised within the web performance space. When we benchmark, are we failing for common biases?
 
 
 
# Case Studies  
 
Time to Largest Contentful Paint on a 3G mobile listing page, comparing the baseline to priority hints enabled
 
### [Priority Hints: What Your Browser Doesn’t Know (Yet)](https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/priority-hints-what-your-browser-doesnt-know-yet)
 
[David Ross](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidthakerross/)
Learn what Priority Hints are, how Etsy started experimenting with their implementation and what their results were!
 
Image of a load time distribution graph from Real User Monitoring data for GOV.UK over the month of May 2022, showing our 75th percentile load time is 0.824 seconds and that some users see a load time as big as 2.35 seconds.
 
### [The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance](https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/15/the-impact-of-removing-jquery-on-our-web-performance/)
 
[Matt Hobbs](https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu) & Andy Sellick

Find out why removing *only *32 Kb of compressed and minified JavaScript makes a difference to the GOV.UK audience and how no performance improvement is too small.

 
 
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