Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram. 6 * 7 * Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc. 1 /* 2 * biolatency.bt

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. What’s Next?

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? These models are useful for insight regarding the basic computer system performance metrics of latency and throughput (bandwidth). Little’s Law.

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Systems Latency Performance Analytics 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? The M/M/1 queue will show us a required trade-off among (a) allowing unscheduled task arrivals, (b) minimizing latency, and (c) maximizing throughput.

Systems 53

Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. Show me the money!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. It also allows for additional control over the caching of your images as well as hotlink protection.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Delayed five years. Gamepad API. Pointer Lock. Media Recorder.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145