Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. 2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Measuring Performance With Server Timing. Measuring Performance With Server Timing. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. When undertaking any sort of performance optimisation work, one of the very first things we learn is that before you can improve performance you must first measure it. Drew McLellan.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. According to Wikipedia , Romania ranked 5th place worldwide for the average connection speed of 38.60Mb/s. USD each online annually. USD each online annually.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. 24 Accessibility (2019).

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. You can do everything from testing the viewport on a mobile device to editing a website on the fly, and even measuring the performance of an entire website or individual assets.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort of discipline in the form of strange workarounds of its limitations. If we look at the 90 th percentile of that same dataset — because it’s really the long tail of performance we need to optimize for — we see an increase of 239%.

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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. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. Globally, consumers are preferring their mobile phones for performing activities (e.g. Mobile website testing helps in serving your customers with a flawless performance on popular screen resolutions. Speed and Accuracy.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Either way, redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. Redirection increases the amount of time it takes for your site to render, and you should minimize its use to optimize page performance. webperf #perfmatters Click To Tweet.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend. 2023 Content Targets #.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features , better performance , improved security , and adequate site compatibility that come from switching. Without the ability to differentiate on features, security, performance, and privacy, what's to sell? What are those mechanisms? A slightly different UI ?

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KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. This will improve the image processing performance and decrease the overall cost. If this setting is enabled our network will completely ignore the query string.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Here’s the problem though: As a website grows in authority and expands its reach, security and performance problems will arise if the hosting configuration isn’t prepared to handle it. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Suzanne Scacca. VPS Hosting.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Network scanners.

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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. Live by the link, die by the link.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. 2019-06-26T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-06-26T14:06:48+00:00. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. Suzanne Scacca. She was torn though. Clean coding practices.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Performance Costs. JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 11, 2019

View-centric performance optimization for database-backed web applications Yang et al., The problem set-up in this paper discusses the importance of keeping web page load times low as a fundamental contributor to user satisfaction (See e.g. ‘ Why performance matters ’). on average, and up to 38x. Introducing Panorama. Cost estimation.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

In 2019, we sold 500k tickets a year, so our operations are complex and we need to showcase it with our landing pages in an appealing and fast manner. But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? Performance Impact. How about errors?” Conclusions.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Image Optimization Importance We have been talking a lot about website optimization lately and have interviewed many web performance experts to get their recommendations and advice. Here are just a few of their responses: A big focus for our performance team is (and will continue to be) optimizing images. You guessed it, images.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications, as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS, Azure, and Cloud Foundry. Receive the timestamp in UTC millisecond format: from=1558963489634.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance. Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance. 2019-08-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-08-09T12:36:17+00:00. In this article, we’ll start by exploring the impact unused CSS can have on page load speeds. Luke Harrison. Measuring The Impact Of Unused CSS Classes.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. For native applications, you can skip installing emulators as they do not give you the precise performance of the application. Mobile Network Issues.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The high tech lab is remotely operational and specifically targets device behaviour in terms of speed, memory usage, and battery consumption. Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Key Considerations. Compatibility.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The business-critical tier has local SSD which provide much better IO performance with max data IOPS ranging from 8000 for a 2 vCore database up to 204,800 for an 80 vCore database. Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data.

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Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Tasktop at Agile Israel 2019. Tasktop is thrilled to be a sponsor of Agile Israel 2019 , Israel’s main conference for Agile and DevOps, which takes place next week (May 21, 2019) at the Lago Event Hall in Israel. Companies of all sizes invest in DevOps for two major reasons: to save money and to speed the development.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Drew McLellan. What Could Go Wrong?

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. Considering this requirement and the website load, enterprises generally set up multiple servers and machines that can talk to each other through a network. How should enterprises perform cross-browser testing? The final pre-requisite is the testers.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S. For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. Apple's Security Argument #.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Approximately more than 34 million blockchain wallets were used globally in 2019.

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