Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. When you stop to consider all the implications of poor performance, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that poor performance is an ethical issue.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. Some other future BPF books may be good, and I'll recommend them as appropriate. I've followed this proven approach in my book.

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

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. Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds.

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. Today, their time-to-market is close to zero.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Because of nobody like a slow website. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Getting your websites, images, and videos to load quickly is an absolute necessity for inbound marketing success. Slow website and your business bottom line. Want proof?

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Speed Website Performance Website Mobile 93

CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Instilling a performance culture at The Telegraph. We've been working hard at The Telegraph to improve third-party performance. Gareth Clubb : At The Telegraph (a major UK newspaper), we set up a web performance working group to tackle our “organizational” performance challenges and instill a performance culture.

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Performance Internet Internet Metrics 42

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. INP will officially replace FID when it becomes an official Core Web Vital metric.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 96

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is clearly not just bad for the environment — it’s bad for performance and hurts our users too. Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. The performance impact is be measured with PageSpeed Insights. This seems wasteful.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 103

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. We’re talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this can have a considerable performance impact when cold starts occur too often. Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 218

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. It’s reliable, robust, feature-rich, and performant. Additionally, the IT team must have the expertise to maintain the deployment at peak performance. It all helps ensure the cluster’s peak performance.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Large preview ) I don’t know about you, but it often feels like I’m missing something when measuring page speed performance. Not the best way to get a high-level view of performance. I’ve had time to work with DebugBear and thought I’d give you a peek at it with some notes on my experience using it to monitor performance.

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Speed Monitoring Testing Network 82

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Again, every millisecond counts.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. Some other future BPF books may be good, and I'll recommend them as appropriate. I've followed this proven approach in my book.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. The proposal looked shockingly like those sketched in years past.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. There are many ways to speed up a slow website.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. Performance Tip #1: Inline Critical CSS. Performance Tip #3: Less Is More.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 97

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021.

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 76

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. This newly updated version of TLS offers users both faster performance and improved security. Automatic DDoS Protection DDoS attacks can be one of the biggest disruptors to a website’s infrastructure. with 0-RTT support.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

On high-end developer devices (like mine with 16GB RAM), few or no performance problems occur. Static : A photographer, designer, or you (the developer) create the images for the website. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 1, 2017. Though that worked for me as a developer, it wasn’t the best for the audience. on CodePen.

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Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. As a strategy to improve performance for users, significant questions remain unanswered. None of this holds. Thar be dragons.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. But when we run on a cluster of machines, how can we perform the resource management required by this new generation of distributed data-intensive applications?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

This over-confidence didn’t last long though, because when I arrived, I found myself surrounded by conceptual artists, filmmakers, painters, performance artists, printmakers, and sculptors, who all seemed much more talented than I was. Karl Gerstner (1930–2017) was a Swiss artist and one of the most influential typographers.

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Design Media Mobile Energy 94

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Not only are new services being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, existing experiences are pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. Not the developers being showered with shiny tools and boffo praise for replacing "legacy" HTML and CSS that performed fine. It is not going well.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. Recommended reading : Understanding And Using REST APIs.

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Social Media Database Media Website 65

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

at re:Invent 2017. There isn’t too much validation performed by AWS, as far as I can tell, on SAR apps. When using the SAR search console for production apps in a data sensitive context, you may, instead, want to only use direct links to SAR applications from an external website?—? AWS announced a new service?—?the

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Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. Accessibility goes far beyond the code, so when it comes to delivering accessible websites, each person in a team has their specific responsibilities.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 130

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Removed from the need to police security (browsers have that covered) and handle distribution (websites update themselves), PWA app stores like store.app can become honest-to-goodness app management surfaces that can safely facilitate discovery and sync. in a marketing trenchcoat [6].

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Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers. using “22” for the year 2022).

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98