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ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Scalegrid

These databases are a natural fit for the developer market that has gravitated towards DigitalOcean since its launch just nine years ago in 2011. You can see a detailed breakdown of this performance benchmark in their Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing: ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases post.

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The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care?

Speed Curve

These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Here you can see page growth from 2011 to now, broken out by content type: The first thing that jumps out is the large amount of page real estate being taken up by video. Not all pages are getting bigger. Maybe yours is one of them!

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).