Fail-safe Mechanism
A fail-safe mechanism is a core architectural principle of Speed Kit that guarantees the service will never slow down a website. When a user requests a page, Speed Kit creates a "race" between its fast cache and the site's Origin Server. In the rare event that the origin server's response is faster, Speed Kit's fail-safe is triggered: it simply steps aside and serves the origin response directly to the user.
Related web performance terms
- Fetch Priority (`fetchpriority="high"`)
The fetchpriority="high" attribute is an HTML attribute that tells the browser to prioritize loading a specific resource (like an image or script) higher than other resources of the same type.
- Field Data (Real User Monitoring - RUM)
Field data is performance data collected from the real users visiting your website in their actual environments. It captures the true user experience across the full spectrum of devices, network co…
- First Contentful Paint (FCP)
First Contentful Paint (FCP) is a performance metric that measures the time from when a user initiates loading the page until the first piece of content (text, image, or other element) is rendered on the screen.
- Flash of Original Content (FOOC)
See Flicker Effect.