Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 136

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Traffic refers to the amount of user demand, or load, is on the system.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . DNS Hijacking and Phishing.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is. Google uses mobile-friendly features of websites as a ranking factor. Best Practices For Mobile Website Testing. Signup Now.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 70

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to Statista , at least 50% of global online traffic is driven by mobile users. Here are some reasons why mobile web testing is important: For A Better Search Result Ranking: Google ranks websites based on how mobile-friendly they are. If the websites or web apps are not responsive, users may not return to the sites.

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions.

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Performance Latency Traffic Metrics 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

DevOps best practices include testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing. Synthetic CI/CD testing simulates traffic to add an outside-in view to the analysis. DORA stands for the DevOps Research and Assessment team, a Google-headed project tasked with analyzing DevOps practices.

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Monitoring Software Software DevOps 210

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. Analytics is a good example. It’s worth asking.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

During a breakout session at Dynatrace’s Perform 2021 event, Senior Product Marketing Manager Logan Franey and Product Manager Dominik Punz shared mobile app monitoring best practices to maximize business outcomes. And those are just the tools for monitoring the tech stack. These teams may also have a separate mobile crash tool.

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Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices also poses a significant obstacle for workload management in the realm of cloud computing platforms.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 drop in revenue per user, as well as a 1.8% Conclusion.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

The second example was around web-server threads, which turned out that the team ran with default settings for Apache (200 worker threads) which was too low for the traffic the government agencies are receiving during business hours. Impressive results I have to say! You, my dear reader, can start optimizing your applications as well.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 204

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). To get you started with Kubernetes, this post offers a high-level introduction to its core features, highlighting its built-in advantages and showcasing some practical, real-world uses.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 103

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. When asked about the benefits of adopting serverless, there were some stand-out issues.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. Once Dynatrace sees the incoming traffic it will also show up in Dynatrace, under Transaction & Services.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 199

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, it turns out that an enormous number of active middleboxes make certain assumptions about TCP that no longer hold for the new extensions. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A ‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. In other cases, you’ll gain only a few dozens of milliseconds at best, even less if you’re already using a CDN (which you should be doing if you care about performance!).

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

MachMetrics

JUNE 18, 2019

“Images are still the number one cause of bloat on the web” Recently Addy Osmani of Google Chrome released a guide covering essential image optimization. In addition, nearly 60% of web traffic in 2018 came from mobile devices. It’s a godsend. This brings us to WebP.

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Speed Website Social Media Media 81

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. Let’s figure it all out. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 93

Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Large preview ).

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