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The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2].

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

In my research, I was looking into sites found in the December 2020 mobile HTTPArchive , and it wasn’t difficult to spot a good number of sites loading huge video files by default, both on mobile and on desktop. The table below is showing the total amount of traffic used. Well, let’s diagnose what is going on. Large preview ).

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. In acknowledgement of this trend, Google went fully mobile-first in early 2020. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF).

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We couldn’t fix the AVIF issue quickly due to the way media management is running currently, but then Barry Pollard suggested to test if using base64-encoding for images would help. What Is TypeScript?

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