Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. Learn more here!

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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. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. 5G looks set to continue a bumpy rollout for the next half-decade. Mind The Gap.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.

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