Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback system font initially and then upgrade it to the web font when it downloads. Wasn’t font-display Supposed To Solve This?

Operating System 143

Operating System Google Website Cache 143

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Despite the large number of product images that are on Target’s homepage, only 50kb is downloaded when the user navigates to the page, with the rest only being downloaded when the user scrolls down. Target’s servers are stellar. TLDR – Target’s server response time is blazing fast.

Retail 82

Retail Speed Website Google 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. The use of VPN however, usually slows down downloading and accessibility by 30 percent or more.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. One of the costs that Noam mentions is the increased download size, especially JavaScript bundle sizes, that stem from the use of frameworks and other libraries.

Google 128

Google Performance Website Mobile 128

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

Transportation 97

Transportation Processing Servers Code 97

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers — Philip Walton covers how A/B testing is a little trickier on static sites than server-backed sites, but you can pull it off (performantly) thanks to Cloudflare Workers which can manipulate HTML before it hits the browser, much like a Service Worker except at the edge rather than at the client.

Performance 68

Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 The TTFB and the content download times were the two greatest factors decreased by implementing a CDN.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. The core idea is to make individual device updates opaque to the server, only revealing the sum after a sufficient number of updates have been received.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Google Monitoring Website Speed 106

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

PWAs have been around for over five years, yet native applications outnumber them both in the quantity ratio and how many times users download them. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. Espresso: Designed by Google for Android, Espresso lets you write solid and reliable Android UI tests. Google has expanded it and it can interact with various Android apps.

Testing Tools 86

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Open Source 86

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

OpenAI won’t give him the GPT models, but he can download the model for Meta’s Llama-2 and have at it.) It may not be possible if you use a generative model configured as a chat server by itself. But Google has the best search engine in the world. He’s welcome to try, and he won’t succeed. But that isn’t the end of the story.

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 99

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Google will not rank your website or sometimes penalize it if there’s any indication of poor user experience, including slow page load time – whereas faster sites get an SEO boost, according to Google Webmaster Blog: “…faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs.

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

MachMetrics

JULY 15, 2020

If these aren’t being downloaded asynchronously (see below), that’s a problem. This method doesn’t support simultaneous download, meaning it still needs to do one import at a time. Just remember that each additional plugin you use can introduce more files that need to be downloaded, so keep those to a minimum.

Speed 78

Speed Website Cache Google 78

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Understandably so. Sometimes that’s fine. What We Know.

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Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. Anyone who has ever built a Docker container has experienced “now we wait for some giant things to download and be uncompressed.”

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Because of the redirection, our total HTML request, download, and render time took an additional 156 ms – for a total of 521 ms. If your site requires external files, such as images and CSS, ensure that your HTML calls these resources directly and that there aren’t any redirects occurring to download these files.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You may one day find yourself needing to make an Ionic Framework Android and iOS app that downloads media or in-app purchase content from a remote web server to the users device. Maybe you created an audio app that plays music from the cloud and you decided to cache upcoming songs in your playlist like Google Music does.

Media 52

Media Cache Google Cloud 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

These can be downloaded from the official app stores. and are deployed using a web server. It is an HTTP server written using NodeJs and drives Android and iOS sessions using WebDriver protocol. After downloading and installing, it sets up a server on your machine that will expose a REST API.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Testing Tools Programming 52

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Dean Hume

MARCH 19, 2019

Streams have been available server side for years, but web streams are available to JavaScript, and you can now start processing raw data with JavaScript bit by bit as soon as it is available on the client-side, without needing to generate a buffer, string, or blob. What is a stream? What is NDJSON? and process it accordingly.

Transportation 40

Transportation Processing Servers Code 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

The Time to First Byte (TTFB) metric (also known as First Byte) measures the speed with which your server delivers content to the user. Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit. First Meaningful Paint: Is It Useful?

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. Large preview ).

Google 111

Google Performance Cache Website 111

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since the users can also read the code, it increases the trust factor which in turn increases the acceptability rates and hence the downloads. State of the software supply chain 2021 shows the download trends for open-source projects: Open-source software is also free-to-use for everyone and everyone is invited to contribute.

Open Source 52

Open Source Code Software Software 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server. The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. Does that mean your JWT has to be out in the open?

Storage 93

Storage Mobile Website Java 93

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

Price : $199 per user, paid one-time. Rapise : Rapise is a desktop automation testing application that supports testing on the web, mobile, desktop, and APIs. Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You can remotely access and navigate another database server. The dashboard lets you monitor server activities such as database locks, connected sessions, and prepared transaction. Since pgAdmin is a web application, you can deploy it on any server and access it remotely. pgAdmin can be downloaded from their official website.

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Bard vs. MongoDB and MySQL challenge This was my first test of Bard ever, and I had pretty high expectations due to the fact that it can reach the online information, as opposed to ChatGPT, which operates on limited data. Me : OK, so if I want to downgrade my MongoDB standalone server from version 7.0 Server: Stop the MongoDB 7.0

Database 87

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 87

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74