The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. Netflix interest in SVT-AV1 Reference software typically focuses on the best possible compression at the expense of encoding speed.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. Seat Pagine Gialle currently hosts over 100,000 websites while serving the needs of over 12.5 million unique visits.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

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

Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

Reality: While it’s true that when there’s a web performance budget in place, teams need to keep it in mind when updating code or site design, this doesn’t have to impact the speed at which these updates happen. Compare to the ~13s an average phone (Moto G4) takes or the ~36s taken by a low-end 2018 phone (Alcatel 1X). Tim Kadlec.

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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

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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?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

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] India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

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.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

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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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. The global conversion rate for Q3 of 2018 was 2.42% down from 2.78% in Q2.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. For URLs where to find the book and updates, please see my website BPF Performance Tools (book). Early courses covered only the DTrace language, and expected students to figure out what to do with it.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

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.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

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. It allows for even faster speeds due to 1 less round trip required. The Benefits of TLS 1.3 via a browser.

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Transportation C++ Network Google 67

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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MachMetrics

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s no secret that we’re a huge fan of lazy loading your below-the-fold images to improve page speed. While this feature was proposed back in January 2018, it wasn’t until recently that they decided it was happening. The post Browser/Native Lazy-Loading Coming in 2019 appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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 The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 to $138.46.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here, the content hosted on the cloud could be accessed from the nearest cloud instead of a fixed location of the cloud, thus improving the speed and efficiency of executing the hosted test cases and getting the results. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. 53% of mobile users leave websites after 3 seconds.

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IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more …. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house. The two devices represent very different ends of the spectrum. Performance is conservation.

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Rigor

JULY 26, 2018

Google announced that starting in July 2018, ‘Page Speed’ would be factored into the determination of mobile search results. According to a recent survey by Akamai , almost half of users will abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. With the recent release of Lighthouse 3.0, How are paint metrics different?

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

tpcc | DELIVERY | PROCEDURE | @ | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | DEFINER | | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | latin1_swedish_ci |. GHz. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range. large-pages.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

2018-08-17T13:50:09+02:00. These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface. In Myriam Jessier’s " Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 ", she sums up Google’s four micro-moments: “I want to know.”. “I

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Design Google Website Small Business 62

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? Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed. For URLs where to find the book and updates, please see my website BPF Performance Tools (book). Early courses covered only the DTrace language, and expected students to figure out what to do with it. Discussion on hacker news.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

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? Start Render time, Speed Index ). Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.

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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? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

2018-10-15T14:30:13+02:00. A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Progressively Enhanced Speed. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.

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Code Retail Mobile Website 58

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app. Additionally, Netflix uses the Reactjs library to boost runtime performance, modularization and increase start-up speed.

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. How bad is it?

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

They understood that most websites lack tight latency budgeting, dedicated performance teams, hawkish management reviews, ship gates to prevent regressions, and end-to-end measurements of critical user journeys. And when websites stop being where most of the information and services are, who will hire web developers?

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-01-21T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-01-21T16:39:57+00:00.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? AI isn’t yet at the point where it can write as well as an experienced human, but if your company needs catalog descriptions for hundreds of items, speed may be more important than brilliant prose.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, it’s worth noting that it has not been updated since November 2018. Within a fixed layout set to 100vh , the bottom part of the website content is stuck behind the browser chrome, making it inaccessible when scrolling is prevented. It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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