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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. #include <sys/time.h> > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i, ret; struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; for (i = 0; i.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Best Practices for Implementing MySQL Partitioning With these best practices, you can ensure that your MySQL partitioning setup is efficient, well-maintained, and improves database performance. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c include <sys/time.h>

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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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6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. In this article we’re going to discuss various methods for improving eCommerce conversion rates.