Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. Jonne Kats. Challenges.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Jamstack files usually use Markdown before being compiled to HTML, for example: author: Agustinus Theodorus title: ‘Title’ description: Description. Active Memory Caching. Hello World.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

In this piece, we will dive deeper to show how Server-Timing headers are so uniquely powerful, show some practical examples by solving challenging monitoring problems with this header, and provoke some creative inspiration by combining this technique with service workers. Let’s look at this in a complete example.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

The image below shows a significant drop in latency once we've launched the new point of presence in Israel. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%! With a total of 5 POPs in Oceania, this continent benefits from lower latency with every POP added. For example, the POP in Tel Aviv uses ilta.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The common way to deal with this is to measure percentiles, and track the 90%, 99% response times for example. For example lets say you have a 99% within 2 seconds SLA, and your current 99%ile measured over one minute is 1 second. What Is the Expected Distribution of Website Response Times?

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, the data is pretty slow to update, refreshing every 28 days, meaning it is not the same as real-time monitoring. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. But it comes with caveats. So why use lab data at all?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source: For example, Lambda@Edge request pricing is $0.6 Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing. per one million requests.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Queued request. DNS lookup.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if you’re deploying the infrastructure for an e-commerce website, security becomes a fundamental requirement. For example, the first 10TB to South America cost $0.11.Source: For example, Lambda@Edge request pricing is $0.6 Some CDNs offer features like security and load balancing. per one million requests.

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading. Queued request. DNS lookup.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, consider the following scenario :‍Figure: A Vendor Lock-in Architecture‍You've used Amazon S3 to host your static site and content and Amazon API Gateway to host your APIs that clients will use to decide on the static content to fetch. because their website can never be supported by any other CDN.‍Sign

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Airbnb is a great example of a customer building high-performance and scalable applications with Amazon Aurora. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values. Take Expedia, for example.

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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? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ).

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

With just one click you can enable content to be distributed to the customer with low latency and high-reliability. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. Therefore, some of Akamai clients decided to use it to build their own website, and they did. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. High CPU usage, for example, can indicate that your server is under heavy processing load, possibly due to poorly optimized queries or increased user activity.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, that is probably true, as long as they don’t slow down your website to the point where you are losing visitors. When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. For example, the query string ?

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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? Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. What does it mean? Image source ).

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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. Image source ).

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Real user monitoring vendors provide an agent (Javascript) that is injected on each page of a website or application. Real User Monitoring (RUM). Benchmark Against Competitors.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 18, 2019

Raise your hand if you've ever poured countless hours into making a fast website, only to have it slowly degrade over time. At some point you'll be given permission to "focus on performance" and after many more hours, the website will be fast again. The secret to a faster website? Network latency will affect performance testing.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Cache-Headers missing? Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. Service workers that will cache the bytecode result of a parsed and compiled script. After that, it’ll be mitigated by cache.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Take the example of paginated content, like a photo album. For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. The as Attribute. a web page).

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). In this case, 28 Mbytes is a little larger than the LLC for this CPU, so may not cache so well (in a single LLC, anyway, and based on this single measurement). Why did I use a 100 ms interval? 16.570 403.66

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Similarly, resources were often inlined in other resources (for example, critical CSS was inlined in the HTML). 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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A simple example is the situation with Persons and Telephones; a person has a name, a person can have one or more telephones and each phone can have one or more telephone numbers. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings. No lock-in.

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. But, as he explains, this approach falls apart when HTTPS gets involved.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example.

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