The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). Visual Comparison. Who are your competitors in your website’s niche? Need to speed test a website that lives behind a login?

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Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. SSR provides more extensive visibility for websites once Google crawls sites for its results pages.

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels. Think of it this way.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. And this is shocking since we all know that page load speed is directly correlated to site revenue (you’re aware that faster websites lead to increased conversion and sales, right?). ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

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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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. After you've added conversion data, you're all ready to create lots of compelling visualizations to get your organization to care about site speed. Learn more here.

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Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

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. It’s “single-threaded,” which is how we get the one-way street comparison. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You know how critical it is to build websites that load quickly. Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. Suzanne Scacca.

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Mobile Media Website Storage 63

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

For comparison, the same amount of data costs $6.66 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. For comparison, $3.67 in the UK, or $12.37

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. When it comes to web applications (or websites), cross browser testing should be a high-priority item on the automation testing checklist. UTC, EST. MST, etc.).

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Testing Operating System Website Internet 55

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eye-tracking provides information on how people navigate on a page and how attracted they are to visual elements on the screen, like in this study conducted by Nielsen Norman Group which shows the pattern that people use to scan comparison tables. This is a click heatmap of a website. Eye-Tracking Evolution.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app. Angular vs React – The Complete Comparison. Quick Links. What is React?

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

In this article, we’ll start by exploring the impact unused CSS can have on page load speeds. Whilst I adore Sheffield United, the mighty blades, their website’s CSS is bundled into a single 568kb minified file, which comes to 105kb even when gzipped. Google has recognized this as well. That seems like a lot. Large preview ).

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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. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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. The downside of using it is its speed.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Let’s start with a comparison between native lazy loading and the good ol’ JavaScript-driven one. Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content.

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Website Best Practices Media Open Source 103

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. These services often check from various geographic locations to keep an eye on network routes to your server and will send you alerts via email and txt if your website is down.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Testsigma

APRIL 16, 2021

Imagine having an end product with a missing icon or faulty navigation or other common issues like font sizing, websites only optimized for desktop screen size, breakage of layout styles for different screen sizes, and the incompatibility of JS scripts across specific browsers. What matters to them is a seamless interface.

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Testing Open Source Mobile Java 52

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. That makes it a proper fit, as speed is one of the critical factors for making a successful mobile application. React vs React Native: Head to Head Comparison.

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Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

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? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Guy Podjarny’s recent research shows that only one in eight websites is responsive. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content. Source: SpeedCurve.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, most of the websites don’t seem to be SPAs. alternatives with a detailed comparison. . Developers can get help from the Preact documentation and official website examples to kick-start your application development. Yet, they ultimately pick up the speed. Top 6 React.js Source: [link]. Inferno Pros.

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Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

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? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

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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. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default. Google Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mike’s personal website. Actually, I was just checking the Cut Into The Jamstack website today, and the accessibility score is very high. On the Chakra homepage, they do have a comparison on why you might want to reach for one or the other, but I don’t have it internalized. I’ve done static websites. Show Notes.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The folk at Google have been pushing this sentiment with a focus on user-centric performance metrics , which aim to answer four questions about users’ experiences: Is it happening? It calculates the Start Render time by performing a frame-by-frame comparison to find the point at which the first pixels are rendered to the screen.

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Rigor

JULY 25, 2019

We’ve made your life easier by starting the comparison for you. If the First Meaningful Paint time is too long, she’s going to tell you to speed it up. Google Lighthouse Score. There are so many characters living in the fictional city of Springfield that you can always find one who shares a persona with a web performance metric.

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