Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR. This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server.

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 103

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. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? Reference: [link].

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. Network related scenarios in mobile testing.

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Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. 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. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

One could do the recording to analyze the queries to replicate in load yes, but in practice there are better and alternate ways to do that like with a network proxy, Wireshark, or the network analyzer tab/tool in browser’s debug toolset. If a single webpage or website transaction calls 20 APIs that’s ok, and manageable.

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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. There’s also WordPress and Drupal, content management systems (CMSes) that power millions of websites worldwide. Problem solved! So… is it safe?

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 81

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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Website Code Mobile Network 125

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). When the user browses away from a website, the service worker of that website is typically paused by the browser; it is then restarted and reactivated once the parent domain is visited again.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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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

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

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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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts. Tammy Everts.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

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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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services. Of course, managing such apps across more than one machine can get complicated very quickly.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

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.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

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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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 18, 2016

LoadView is a powerful cloud-based load testing tool that can run in real browsers as well as headless http tasks to load test your website or web application. Over the course of a single load test you can generate millions of site visits, simulating peak load times on your website. Load Testing With LoadView.

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Software Software Testing Website 40

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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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

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. It ensures that the website or web application works seamlessly on various combinations of devices, browsers, and operating systems as below: Devices – Mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, smart TV, etc. – Thorsten Heins.

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Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

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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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. This might feel like a lot to fix at once, but not to worry: we can all make the Web better one website at a time. Finally, you of course want to be thinking about your users, but you should also be thinking about yourself! That’s not the case.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

You need to make sure that your website or app runs smoothly in over a dozen web browsers and hundreds of different devices, which is no easy feat. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs. Raygun Raygun offers 3 separate services which can all be used simultaneously to keep a better eye on any website errors.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

But there’s that inner personal actual relationship required in the terms of safety that I’m talking about, as opposed to, yeah, someone anonymous on the internet or some anonymous entity trying to get your data, things like that. They’re actually mostly … Some of them I can answer. Eva: Yeah, absolutely.

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Design Education Network Google 98

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security. One must wonder, of course, how Apple treats applications with persistent security issues that aren't browsers.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world. EveryStep currently offers a choice of over 42 browser emulations – everything from Chrome and Internet Explorer to iPhone, Google Nexus, and Samsung Galaxy.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" The idea that a browser may grant some sites a capability is, of course, not equivalent to giving superpowers to all sites with low friction. At a technical level, this is not correct.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64