Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 131

Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The image was served from a separate assets domain (often bad for performance), but it wasn’t going to be possible to change that in the short term, and Smashing Magazine had already added a preconnect resource hint to speed that up as best they could. Page groupings can work well for sites like Smashing Magazine. But hold up a minute.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Previous results from other companies or websites, like those published on WPO Stats , are essential to start a conversation about the topic, but it’s not sufficient. It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

Mobile 135

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. This makes it ideal not only for regular scalability but also for advanced analytics with intricate workload management capabilities. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread.

Google 92

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 92

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance poverty line"?

Performance 118

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Users are likely to abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Connection Time.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Done with the analytical check, I moved on to user interviews.

Education 85

Education Website Google Design 85

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels. Think of it this way.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 21, 2020

In an era of cloud infrastructure, the goal is to integrate all your web services into one place: CDN, DNS, third-party API services, QA tools, analytics tools, and any other component you can think of, are working with each other to make your services function. Is my website speed good? Are my APIs in good health?

Monitoring 94

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Network 94

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

Google 141

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance plateau"?

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs.

Metrics 151

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. One challenge for fair inclusion is the tension between site-count-weighting and traffic-weighting.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. The powerful interface helps you define and customize every element of your website without any hassle.

Open Source 104

Open Source Website Mobile Code 104

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

Cache 97

Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). In other words, website owners need to make an extra effort to get their scripts to load asynchronously. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.)

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Updated Geekbench 4 single-core scores for each mobile price-point."

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. the recoverability of data.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Now, analytics tools and performance monitoring tools will provide this data when needed, but we looked specifically into CrUX , Chrome User Experience Report. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. QuickSight is a cloud-powered BI service built from the ground up to address the big data challenges around speed, complexity, and cost.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152