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. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

In contrast, tools like DebugBear and WebPageTest use more realistic throttling that accurately reflects network round trips on a higher-latency connection. This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. Real usage data would be better, of course.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Maybe "ambush by JS"? First Load.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Unless you can use Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers , of course. Large preview ).

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