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21 June 2023

⚡ 129: How CDNs influence performance

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#### Editor’s note
 
Choosing the right format of a file and appropriately serving it can make or break the performance of a page. That’s why the increased adoption of new image formats, such as AVIF, is exciting. We can use high-quality imagery with the fraction of the size.
 
Also, with dedicated image CDNs, we can ensure fallbacks for less supported modern formats, have semantic markup and serve media from the closest location to the viewers of your sites. And since imagery is present on 99.9% of websites, it’s a worthy task to take on.
 
We have the tools to make the web fast—let’s keep working on it.
 
Karolina
 
 
 
 
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# Articles  
 
A space station with a woman waving in the window towards a person in a spacesuit who is also a post person
 
### [What is a CDN? An unbiased guide to content delivery networks](https://calibreapp.com/blog/content-delivery-networks-guide)
 
[Ben Schwarz](https://germanforblack.com/)
A content delivery network (CDN) is one of the best ways to improve site performance and reliability. Check the performance benefits of CDNs and learn what questions to ask yourself when choosing one.
 
A bar chart comparing various image codec file sizes as a percentage of the output of TurboJPEG. AVIF is lowest, then JPEG XL, then WebP, and finally MozJPEG.
 
### [Deploying AVIF for more responsive websites](https://web.dev/avif-updates-2023/)
 
[Jani Huoponen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janihuoponen/) & [Vignesh Venkatasubramanian](https://web.dev/authors/vignesh/)
AVIF, a relatively new, performant image format, support has been growing over the past several years. Browse through this update on its adoption and where it’s heading.
 
A pink dino with "GIF" written on its body
 
### [Is there a viable animated GIF alternative yet or what?](https://cloudfour.com/thinks/animated-gif-alternative/)
 
[Tyler Sticka](https://tylersticka.com/)

Who doesn’t love a good GIF? Sadly, with GIFs come performance issues, so the question remains: which format will be a GIF successor?
 

 
 
 
# Case Studies  
 
A screenshot of the logging system used by redBus to analyze INP values collected from the field
 
### [How redBus improved their website's Interaction to Next Paint (INP) and increased sales by 7%](https://web.dev/redbus-inp/)
 
[Amit Kumar](https://amitkumar-v.medium.com/) & [Saurabh Rajpal](https://twitter.com/saurabhrajpal)
Learn how redBus identified latency issues caused by client-side, blocking JavaScript tasks and API network calls and worked on improving their Interaction to Next Paint metric.
 
 
 
# Browsers  
 
### [What’s new in Safari 17](https://murshidmuzamil.com/blog/safari-17/)
 
[Murshid Muzamil](https://murshidmuzamil.com/)
Fair few performance news from the Safari 17 release. Safari 17 supports JPEG XL, a new, modern image format, preconnect via Early Hints and fetch priority.
 
 
 
# Courses, Talks & Podcasts  
 
Graph showing what performance aspects we have control and influence over
 
### [Improving performance for 3 million web sites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_4A4pTPA4&ab_channel=NYWebPerformanceMeetup)
 
[Michael Gooding](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgooding1981/)

The Merchant Performance team is a new team at Shopify working on speed. Check out this talk to find out what they learned over the past year, what their focus is and the challenges of optimising performance for a flexible no code solution.

 
 
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