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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 5.

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Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast

CSS - Tricks

In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post. Amazon even provides an official recommendation (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Try changing the kernel clocksource. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 6.

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Bringing Rich Experiences to Memory-constrained TV Devices

The Netflix TechBlog

Some of the metrics we use to measure performance on the Netflix TV app include animation frames per second (FPS), key input responsiveness (the amount of time before a member’s key press renders a change in the UI), video playback speed, and app start-up time. One such area is our graphics memory management.

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