CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. his is another useful metric to track and use for refactoring goals. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Social Media Media Network Energy 53

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. This helps support executive sponsors who then have meaningful metrics to point to in justifying the investments being made. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The key metric for measuring the sustainability of a digital product is its energy usage. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Late in the drafting of this post, it was pointed out to me by Frederik Braun that Brad Hill had considered the downsides of a site-populated SRI addressable cache back in 2016. It turns out this idea has been circulating for a while.

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. Despite every significant improvement to the underpinnings of the web and the networks we access it through, we continue to build for it in ways that suggest we’re content with the never-ending Jevons paradox in which we toil. has increased by 73%.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). This seems reasonable overhead for a real time algorithm that could be applied to histogram data as part of a metric collection pipeline. > I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Follow him on Twitter @ RickByers and be sure to watch the video of his conversation at Chrome Dev Summit 2016 , where he discussed the ways Chrome is “improving predictability for developers.” MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano. Maximiliano Firtman. Steve Souders. Steve Souders.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). Core web vitals are modern performance metrics that analyze page speed signals that are crucial to providing a superior web experience. These metrics are highly useful to calculate the “page experience” of a page. The approximate goal conversion rate decreases per 1 second are 0.4 -0.5, 0.25] over 0.25.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SQL Server 2016 brought us STRING_SPLIT , a native function that eliminates the need for many of the custom solutions we’ve needed before. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #1. STRING_SPLIT() in SQL Server 2016 : Follow-Up #2. UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.).

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C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. Here are some of the improvements they’ve made since our last update in 2016: Now supports Linux versions. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2016.

Database 40

Database Servers Monitoring Availability 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project. At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

out-of-the-box metric?—?‘concurrent As with all the other Lambda metrics this value can be viewed on a per-function basis, or aggregated across a set of functions or entire account. to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility. Graphically displays triggers and roles of services used. concurrent executions’.

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Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. For example, your team could set up waiting rooms to lessen the load, as Macy’s did when it had a failure on Black Friday 2016.

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