MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The talks are up on YouTube , including my own (behind a paywall, but the slides are freely available [1] ): The talk, like this post, is an update on network and CPU realities this series has documented since 2017. Speeds will be much slower than advertised in many areas , particularly for rural users. 2023 Content Targets #.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. “ The results were clear—speed matters! Want proof?

Speed 93

Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

Offload your brain to code at the speed of thought” . I had been begging Mik to write a book for more than a decade, and he finally did over the course of 2017 and 2018. And what a book Mik authored. My hope for our 16th birthday is to celebrate with my fellow Tasktopians in person with cake and with smiles.

Open Source 98

Open Source Speed Games Software 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

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. those running the 2017 SDK?—?also

Cache 166

Cache Design Testing Development 166

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. This month, SpeedCurve enters double digits with our tenth birthday. We're officially in our tweens! Cue the mood swings?)

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the case of a query having an ORDER BY or GROUP BY and a LIMIT clause, the optimizer tries to choose an ordered index by default when it appears doing so would speed up the query execution. It uses an ordered index instead of an unordered index. Hopefully, MySQL will be adding this in the upcoming releases.

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 103

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Code Maintainability. Bloomberg – Efficient, simple-to-access, personalized content for end-users with automatic code refreshing options. Wix – Achieved high speed and lightness within the development of configurable navigations and screen choices. Flutter vs React Native – Flutter and React Native pros and cons.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Public accessibility enables and allows users to download, modify, and distribute the code. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel Imagine this scene without the sound.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. Higher memory speed and bandwidth. Lower power usage.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. The XEProfiler Sample. Creates an empty DataGrid control. Makes a pass over the files to obtain the Event Locators. Sorts the EventLocators.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring is a challenging process that is much more complex than simply deleting the legacy code and replacing it with the refactored code. There is also the matter of integrating the refactored codebase with the legacy codebase and avoiding regressions, accidental code deletions, preventing stylesheet conflicts, etc.

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

It contains over 150 tools (often with source code), including over 100 brand-new tools mostly developed by myself, so that you can get started right away finding performance wins in any of those areas. - I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. Speed and Accuracy. With this, let’s look at some of the best approaches & tools that can help in building a rock-solid mobile website testing strategy: Validation of HTML and CSS Code. Critical, Severe, Medium, and Low).

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report , those organizations that have employed DevOps practices spend 21 percent less time on unplanned work and rework, and 44 percent more time on new work which leads to higher efficiency. The continuous monitoring and testing of the code improve the overall build quality of the application.

DevOps 53

DevOps Innovation Efficiency Testing 53

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You can skip the WHERE clauses if you are running SQL Server 2017. OPTION ( MAXDOP 1 ) ; This time, only the COUNT_BIG aggregate achieves aggregate pushdown (SQL Server 2017 only). This is an optimization added at some point in SQL Server 2017 (my tests were run on CU16). Batch mode execution is all about speed.

Performance 81

Performance C++ Storage Servers 81

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. The code may be easier to read and understand than the recursive CTE.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer. Even a small bug will make consumers avoid, uninstall and leave bad reviews for your application.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers are unable to rely on semantic versioning or trust file names because returned resources must contain the exact code that developers request. Browser teams aggressively track and manage binary size, and scarce engineering resources are spent to develop increasingly exotic mechanisms to distribute only the code a user needs.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SSR is vital because SPAs take a long time to start up, and you aren't using our vapourware to split your code effectively. Most teams I work with suffer eye-watering build times, shockingly poor code velocity, mysterious performance hits, and some poor sod stuck in a broom closet that nobody bothers much lest the webs stop packing.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Monitoring your website’s real-time traffic , which will require adding a snippet to your source code that sends traffic data to a service. Large preview ) DebugBear also supports the proposed Long Animation Frames API that can help you identify the source code that’s responsible for CPU tasks in the browser.

Traffic 95

Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Rendering metrics provide an estimate of how fast content renders (e.g.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

It contains over 150 tools (often with source code), including over 100 brand-new tools mostly developed by myself, so that you can get started right away finding performance wins in any of those areas. - I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

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.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. Maybe "ambush by JS"? First Load.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

I loved making prints from linocuts, and in much the same way that I’m often entirely absorbed by writing code today, I regularly lost myself carving thousands of tiny marks until the floor was covered in sharp shards of lino. Printmaking and writing code have plenty in common. © Pressing Matters Magazine. Large preview ).

Design 93

Design Media Mobile Energy 93

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. This, too, was a dead end.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111