Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The success of your website depends on the impression it leaves on its users. It’s worth mentioning that good Core Web Vitals scores don’t necessarily mean that your website scores in high 90s on Lighthouse. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. Zara Cooper.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

Artificial Intelligence 184

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 184

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This means Dynatrace isn’t collecting the metrics on the Prometheus server, but directly at the source of truth – the exporters. Additionally, you don’t have to worry about scaling the Prometheus infrastructure because doesn’t even have to be collected by the Prometheus server. The new can collect metrics exposed by your exporters.

Metrics 206

Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Database 206

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering.

Cache 115

Cache Website Energy Servers 115

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring. However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees.

Monitoring 132

Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! The Pumpkin Patch Story.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. There are ways around that, of course. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. What is so different?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. Servers down or server health issues [APM]. Of course, load testing and stress testing are essential – you likely already have your eye on those numbers.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. 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.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 14, 2022

As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. The big benefit, of course, is that it lets you know what you’re up against. Then rummage through the server logs after a week or so to see what is actually used. Stoyan is absolutely correct.

Website 75

Website Servers Network Testing 75

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Critical CSS.

Media 109

Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Each performance chapter is supported by code snippets (via a companion website) and examples to aid in learning. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

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. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Every single visitor will be a different distance from the server. Is your website getting slower?

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Driving Business Metrics.

Mobile 134

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Akshay Ranganath.

Media 118

Media Performance Mobile Latency 118

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. 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.

Cache 103

Cache Internet Internet Servers 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? If your website consists of many JPEGs, you will notice that even progressive JPEGs load one after the other. With Ajax, however, this is possible, provided that the server delivering the image supports HTTP Range Requests.

Network 103

Network Servers Programming Code 103

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.

Testing Tools 100

Testing Tools Testing Website Open Source 100

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Since that time, the SRE role has evolved as the industry has changed and shifted from the traditional monolithic structures to large, widely distributed networks and microservices. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Monitoring.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

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). Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Large preview ).

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nor is it encompassed by a website or marketing materials. A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Compression achieved is relevant because the higher the compression, the smaller the file size, and the lower the data required to transfer the image on the network.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

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. This is useful when customers want to use different origin servers for different types of content.

Cache 117

Cache Latency AWS Website 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. Alba Silvente.

Media 106

Media Cache Website Mobile 106