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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%. Starting around 2011, advertising, which once framed the organic results and was clearly differentiated from them by color, gradually became more dominant, and the signaling that it was advertising became more subtle.

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

Speed Curve

Because the average page is now 3MB in size, and this seems like a good time to pause, check our assumptions, and ask ourselves: Is there any reason to care about page size as a performance metric? And if we don't consider page size a meaningful metric, then what should we care about? They represent trends – that's all.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

For example, when a disastrous earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, many customers in Japan came to AWS to take advantage of the multiple Availability Zones. In addition, they also backed up their data from the AWS Tokyo Region to AWS Singapore Region as an additional measure for business continuity.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Amazon Cloudwatch can be used to get detailed metrics about the performance of the Cache Nodes. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. " package. The smooth, dulcet tones of 2019's Moto E6.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

Leading browsers had moved to 6-week update cadence by 2011 at the latest , routinely delivering fixes at a quick clip. The conclusion was overwhelming: not only was Declarative Shadow DOM now in heavy demand by the community, but it would also make websites much faster. The proposal looked shockingly like those sketched in years past.

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