Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. In this case, 6,716.88/64

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Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make all file operations on Windows run at one tenth their normal speed (or slower), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience.

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Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

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. Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows.

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