CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Cache-Headers missing?

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Are you compressing and caching the right things? It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart). Even though the hero image – which in and of itself is a fairly well optimized image – has downloaded at around the 2.9 Are images optimized?

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Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 66

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Image credit: Garten-und-Freizeit.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 76

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Website Performance Google Media 129

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I see asked, “I’ve tested my site speed, so now what do these metrics mean?” Here we’ll explain what each of the common web performance metrics mean, and how can you use that data to optimize your site and make it faster. Standard Website Speed Metrics.

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Speed Metrics Website Cache 56

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. These metrics provide a different perspective on user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Measures the time it takes for the main content on a webpage to load. One of the key Next.js

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web performance metrics track the efficiency (or lack thereof) of any individual aspect of your website’s performance. Once you have started collecting some of these must-track web performance metrics for your website, inefficiencies will become clearer. Top 10 Web Perf Metrics to Track. Resource Download Time.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

By default, CSS is a render-blocking resource , meaning that the website won’t be displayed to the user until all linked stylesheets and their dependencies (fonts, for example) have been downloaded and parsed by the browser. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) has become an important metric in the last few months. Caching Stylesheets.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 112

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB maintains a web page under the stats link where the number of downloads can be tracked. The NOPM Metric.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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 Mbps download and 0.7

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app. images no longer in the viewport).

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

Davis tells you which statements need to be improved to speed up your application. For each statement, we provide you with 14 metrics. Download the execution plan to analyze it. Oracle performance metrics. From the hundreds of available Oracle performance metrics, we’ve selected those that matter most.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 127

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Key user-centric metrics often depend on the size, number, layout, and loading priority of images on the page. The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. Conclusion. What Is Web Performance?

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. While these metrics can be very helpful it is also important to keep this data in perspective. Why Care About Page Speed?

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

Media 108

Media Mobile Website Metrics 108

Speed Curve

JUNE 4, 2023

For these Recipes, you can add custom JavaScript to your pages: Track size for a single resource – Capture a number of size metrics (total bytes, compressed/uncompressed size, compression ratio, HTTP headers) for a specific resource.

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Testing Cache Metrics Processing 52

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? If you do end up clicking on that AMP page, it’s already been downloaded in the background and as a result, it displays right away. Speed Index. Perhaps the AMP cache will provide a bit of a boost. It does this job well, for the most part.

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Cache Google Speed Metrics 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This data is from the 2007 presentation.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers and major companies have been publishing case studies for years , proving that slower page load experiences impact business metrics, including conversion rate, revenue, bounce rate, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know? More in-depth information is available.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. High speed, on the other hand, improves your customers’ user experience, and results in an increased conversion rate and income. For this article, we ran a speed test for the TED website as the target website.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Very rarely have we seen a team succeed that doesn’t set budgets, gather RUM metrics, and carry representative customer devices. Teams with budgets also find it easier to track and graph progress.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Then follow the instructions to either download the BOL or browse online. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. 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).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 118

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

The following examples use the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ), with a single index added: CREATE INDEX PP ON dbo. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature.

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Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Furthermore, the movie file is very large (often several 100s of GB), and we want to avoid downloading the entire file for each individual video encoder that might be processing only a small segment of the whole movie. Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

Media 109

Media Cache Google Best Practices 109

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Jump to the details ↓ Download a free PDF sample (12MB).

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 94

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a Core Web Vitals metric that measures when the largest contentful element (images, text) in a user’s viewport, such as one of these images, becomes visible. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS, a Core Web Vitals metric) measures the instability of content. Lighthouse. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). 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. This is where we started. As it happened, we lost track of performance in the busyness of day-to-day routine.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

When we gave a complete overview of the state of the web in 2020 we challenged our readers to compare their own website metrics to the multiple metric averages. How did you end up doing on your page weight (the download size of your entire webpage)? Compress and cache your website. How Do I Check My Page Weight?

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