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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies. It is just a guideline, not the exact allocated memory or cache size.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. Source: ThinkWithGoogle. seconds on desktop and 2.59

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. The final thing we can check is caching. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . To illustrate the data reads on Oracle we can flush the buffer cache. Consequently we now need to increase the buffer cache in size if we are to see more CPU activity. so what are your options?

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KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

Brendan Gregg

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Pointer Lock.

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