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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. How does Apple do it?!

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use?

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components. 2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. These powerful brands drive much excitement and, of course, dollars.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. 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. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. A 2021 Global Baseline.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.