All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. at 30,000 feet).

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Before we do anything else, let’s see what happens when we first hit the website. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. Eric Burel. 2022-07-18T11:00:00+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Critical CSS.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

According to Rich Howard, CEO of Optimal, a business dedicated to optimizing websites and mobile apps , there are ten steps your business can take now to start preparing your website or web application for the upcoming holiday season. Ultimately, the key to surviving a peak event is to have very good CDN cache designs.

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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. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Alba Silvente.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Of course, we can get that from the Performance API! We can now track INP scores on our website and break them down into specific components. Image source: Source: DebugBear.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

It now supports delivery of entire websites containing both static objects and dynamic content. In addition to the TTLs, customers also need some other features to deliver dynamic websites through CloudFront. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. Customers will have a switch to turn query strings on or off.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Another advantage is reflected in the website security. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. If it matches, the file is executed. Large preview ).

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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. Modern network performance and availability.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. To paraphrase Arthur C.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites written by Dan Shappir. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. And the average website has only gotten a hundred milliseconds faster in terms of load time, because we just keep throwing more and more stuff at our users. Chris on Twitter. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. Zara Cooper.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Below you’ll see an image showing a graph of a website’s test results over the course of a month.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-21T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-01-21T16:39:57+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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 project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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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? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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