Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. John Stevens. MidPhase.com.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 50

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6. Visit website 7. Visit website 8.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

The CFP for LISA18 is open now, and we’d love for you to submit talks and tutorials ideas by May 24th, 2018. In 2018, for the first time, LISA will be in Nashville, Tennessee, October 29-31, and will be hosted at the Omni Nashville Hotel , next to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

The CFP for LISA18 is open now, and we’d love for you to submit talks and tutorials ideas by May 24th, 2018. In 2018, for the first time, LISA will be in Nashville, Tennessee, October 29-31, and will be hosted at the Omni Nashville Hotel , next to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

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. Systems Performance] has sold very well (thanks, everyone!). I've followed this proven approach in my book.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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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

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. Performance report Brisbane - Australia Brisbane is our 4th POP in Australia. After Sydney, Perth, and Melbourne the new POP south of the Sunshine Coast will further increase performance in Australia. With a population of 2.5

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Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

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Speed Google Website Metrics 99

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir.

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Website Performance Google Media 128

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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. Seat Pagine Gialle currently hosts over 100,000 websites while serving the needs of over 12.5

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. We’re talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this can have a considerable performance impact when cold starts occur too often.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Back in February 2018, Scott Sullivan, Partnerships Team Lead at Skillshare , sent me an email asking if I’d be interested in collaborating on an official ITCSS video course in conjunction with them. This is exactly why documentation around ITCSS is so hard to find—there’s an empty website and a handful of (remarkably thorough!)

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Website Availability Performance Development 105

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

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. We get access to a CDN. code.jquery.com is served by StackPath , a CDN. Users might already have the file cached.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. While performance has been our goal for almost a decade now , we never really had a dedicated performance team.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. An example of such development is the x264 encoder that has been improving years after the H.264

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. c_ytd_payment: 10.00 7 rows in set (0.00

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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. 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.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

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! Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Accessible websites are simply better websites. Christmas Experiments (2018). Mark Fowler’s website.

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Design Development Programming Website 109

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. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 Video. 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:00. This is the reason why GIF heavy websites like Giphy, Imgur and the likes do not use the actual GIF format, but rather convert it to HTML5 video and serve those to users instead. Ayo Isaiah.

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Performance Website C++ Open Source 60

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

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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. Systems Performance] has sold very well (thanks, everyone!). I've followed this proven approach in my book.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach.

Cache 79

Cache Website Speed Database 79

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

For us, this is a logical next step after running our own internal bug bounty effort in 2018 to enhance security. Dynatrace stands for high performance and only wants to ship a product that adheres to the highest security standards in the market. A security researcher would go straight to their website and create a profile.

Programming 137

Programming Games Website Software 137

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. In addition to performance, the Top500 list also summarises the main characteristics of the supercomputers in the list. Performance development. Supercomputer. The Top500 list is all about supercomputers.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

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. A key goal of any feature was to gain support on iOS.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As a website owner, TLS essentially allows you to deliver your site over HTTPS. That being said, this year in 2018, a brand new version of TLS has been released in which the entire web will now begin migrating towards. The update brings with it two major improvements: performance and security. Faster performance TLS 1.3

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Transportation C++ Network Google 67

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Progressive Web Apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today’s websites need to be progressive. Progressive web apps are websites that resemble native mobile apps. Companies that have switched from traditional websites to progressive web apps have seen higher conversions and customer engagement.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101