Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities. Do delays really hurt productivity?

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? Both types of users mentioned access the same system, the only difference is that employees access it via the internal network and externals through a public exposed URL. Are people changing their working patterns?

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR.

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 104

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps).

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Particular Software

JUNE 3, 2019

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it.

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Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2019

T hese small groups will be the key units to help us all begin the journey, but networks will help us to scale impact and inspire even more passion as we see the progress we’re making go exponential. That’s where networks become key. And, guess what?

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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. Never change, Internet Explorer. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files. How Do I Implement Brotli? This can be pretty CPU intensive.

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Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. No user permission is required to register and maintain a service worker. MarioNet use cases.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration. It also keeps track of JavaScript errors, browser metadata, console logs, stack traces, network requests and much more.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. at 30,000 feet). Recent Entries.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Edge, UC Browser, Opera, etc. – Thorsten Heins. This quote shows the dependency we have on browsers, the web, and mobile phones today. But how did we come so far?

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Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

The advantage of using a quorum is that it’s a lower cost alternative, but the downside is that you only have 2 data-bearing nodes as the other acts as a quorum node to determine the best failover course. Azure Virtual Networks. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. With solar power, the centralization of power generation is giving way to a more decentralized model. Neither are clouds.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Example: A mobile app is working fine on Wi-Fi and other network types.

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Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats. They must be kept well protected.

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Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

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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Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Course Management. If you are looking for a top-notch education app development team, make sure it has a course management feature. Social Media. if you’re willing to take your app on the success path.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). PWA Feature Detector. A well-behaved CCT-invoking-app (e.g.,

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. General Debugging Tips.

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. WordPress has been chugging along for years and years and powers a huge chunk of the Internet, and it’ll still be used for blogs well into the future. Problem solved!

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 83

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

This also puts extra work on the browser to recalculate the page layout as each image arrives across the internet. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Performance calculations with and without dimensions. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). The internet. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. It's consistently inconsistent.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. LCP is going to be very dependent on network conditions and the processing power of devices being used (and a lot of your users are likely using a lot of lower-powered devices than you realize! ). CrUX is Chrome only.

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