The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this correlation chart, you can see that conversion rate peaks at just over 6% for sessions with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times of 1.1 Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags).

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s You’ll see that the TTFB and the First Contentful Paint are both very fast, which feels very snappy to visitors coming to the site.

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Here you’ll find the usual page speed metrics such as Speed Index, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, etc. These are typically a measure of how fast the site gets content up on the screen. They offer suggestions on the legibility of your content, such as the contrast and how easy it is to read the text.

Google 82

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing 82

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. It's especially difficult for browsers and performance monitoring tools that don't know the content in the page.

Metrics 56

Metrics Website Speed Media 56

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. Each resource on a page is a contender vying for a spot on the thread and wants to run first. Large preview ) I love this stuff!

Google 90

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

First, what follows is not a critique of individuals on the Safari team or the WebKit project; it is a plea for Apple to fund their work adequately [2]. Web developers are a hearty bunch; we don't give up at the first whiff of bugs or incompatibility between engines. More often, there is a lag between the first and the rest.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145