CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. Penalty: Network Negotiation. On a high latency connection, network overhead totals a whopping 5.037s.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In one high-profile example, Amazon dealt with significant outages on Prime Day 2018 , which may have cost them as much as $99 million in sales. JCrew’s site went down on Black Friday 2018 for five hours , costing the company more than $700,000 in sales and impacting approximately 323,000 shoppers. Case studies abound.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 It gets redirected.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. Accessible websites are simply better websites. Bekk Christmas.

Design 109

Design Development Programming Website 109

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 127

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Plus another AWS GovCloud (US) Region in the United States is coming online by the end of 2018. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

TLS stands for Transport Layer Security which is a cryptographic protocol used to increase security over computer networks. As a website owner, TLS essentially allows you to deliver your site over HTTPS. At the beginning of 2018, we announced that we were deprecating TLS versions 1.0 The Benefits of TLS 1.3 via a browser.

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Google 67

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Another advantage is reflected in the website security. Denis Žoljom.

Cache 79

Cache Website Speed Database 79

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

At over 700 pages, it covers CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, multiple languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security analysis, and the Linux kernel. - For URLs where to find the book and updates, please see my website BPF Performance Tools (book). html [announcement]: [link] [Systems Performance]: [link]

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 to $138.46.

Cache 97

Cache Google Mobile Network 97

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Poor performance can, and does, lead to exclusion.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience. Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Speed Social Media Google Traffic 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

To share a package on npm, a maintainer creates an account on the npm website and runs npm publish in a local folder containing a package.json file. that means any third-party package can access the file system and network etc. In 2018 the average npm maintainer was responsible for almost 4.5 Let’s build a graph! Maintainers.

Code 76

Code Strategy Website Network 76

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. You need to make sure that your website or app runs smoothly in over a dozen web browsers and hundreds of different devices, which is no easy feat. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This allows you to restrict the access to your account by IP (/32) or network (e.g. /24). That’s why back in September of 2018, we were happy to announce that we launched TLS 1.3 back in March of 2018. Automatic DDoS Protection DDoS attacks can be one of the biggest disruptors to a website’s infrastructure.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2019

What if you could present a preview image to the website visitor without having to load additional data? If your website consists of many JPEGs, you will notice that even progressive JPEGs load one after the other. Network console when loading the preview image ( Large preview ). Loading the final image. kB) ( Large preview ).

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Network Servers Programming Code 103

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The result was Kubernetes, which allows developers to create and manage “clusters” of physical and virtual machines in order to coordinate cooperation via a shared network.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here multiple types of mechanical and digital objects are provided unique IDs and are given the ability to transfer data on the network without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. 53% of mobile users leave websites after 3 seconds. the builders of test.ai

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

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

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. But over time, something went very wrong. The same is true of other internet gatekeepers.

Social Media 107

Social Media Google Internet Internet 107

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Conclusion.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Conclusion.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Conclusion.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? ( Large preview ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145