CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. performance.

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 193

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?”

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Why is container security tricky?

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

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. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 180

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Dynatrace news. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 237

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These crucial elements act as conductors in a symphony, coordinating the performance of all aspects related to cloud workloads.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. SLOs define the performance margins you need to achieve, such as five-nines uptime.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 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. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

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Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

Beyond data and model parallelism for deep neural networks Jia et al., The second is an efficient execution simulator that makes searching that space possible by giving a quick evaluation of the potential performance of a given parallelisation strategy. SysML’2019. in the hope of covering more interesting potential solutions.

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Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Performance Tools.

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Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. Even a single 100 KB third-party script can wreak havoc with your page.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Over time we are seeing more applications with more complex physics and simulation characteristics so HPCG is becoming more relevant as a benchmark.

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kubernetes limitations In Linux, by default, performance system events can’t be collected by unprivileged users. This restricts the ability of running profilers to diagnose a performance issue from inside the container. In regular environments, this can be easily worked around by running the profiler with a sudo privilege.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 107

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. For high performance OLTP SQL Server workloads, the memory optimized type of Azure VMs is usually the best choice.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72