Tagged “performance”
3 articles.
Redirect chains: what they cost and how to flatten them
A short link that passes through three hops before landing is slower, leakier and harder to debug than one that lands on the first try.
Caching redirects at the edge without losing your analyticsFIELD NOTES / 075 Developers · 2 min readCaching redirects at the edge without losing your analytics
Caching a redirect makes it fast and makes it invisible. Here is how to get the speed while still counting the click.
Where redirect latency actually comes fromFIELD NOTES / 054 Guides · 2 min readWhere redirect latency actually comes from
A short link adds one round trip. Whether that costs 30ms or 400ms depends on four things, and only one of them is the database.
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