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.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

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 #.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. 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. How about errors?”

Google 110

Google Architecture Servers Speed 110

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

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. Now we’d use no-store.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

While automation use cases often require programmatically processable results in JSON format, there is also often a requirement for the direct import of Dynatrace data into Tableau or Excel. Here’s an example set of results in a CSV export that can easily be processed by Excel: Convenient date and time selector.

Metrics 102

Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature! 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. How Does Image Processing Work? For example, the query string ?width=600&quality=70

Processing 13

Processing Cache Latency Network 13

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

According to StatCounter , as of September 2019, Google Chrome holds 63.72% browser market share across the globe. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. Network Throttling Profiles You can now also add custom networking throttling profiles.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. 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.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units. We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process. We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process.

Mobile 74

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

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. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Establish a performance culture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Tasktop

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Breaking down silos and seamlessly connecting and streamlining data and process flows are integral to finding new solutions, enhancing security, and creating personalized and engaging citizen experiences.” William Eggers, Mike Turley, Government Trends 2020, Deloitte Insights, 2019. Subscribe now.

Government 105

Government Programming Metrics Software 105

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. This problem is more apparent on unreliable and slow networks and lower-end devices. Estimated load times for a makeshift JavaScript application.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

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? Establish a performance culture. Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. In this blog, we deep dive into the various aspects of mobile website testing, including the tools that can accelerate the testing process. Speed and Accuracy. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing?

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More than 100 companies are involved with IBM’s Food Trust network, including many consumer packaged goods companies and grocery retailers. The technology is being targeted as a way to detect fraud, improve the efficiency of claims processing, and simplify the flow of data and payments between insurers and reinsurers.

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The highlights of the top test automation trends that we will be discussing in this article are: Integration of Automation of different processes to enable improved and enhanced end to end automation for eg. Going towards low MTTR means an improvement in all three of these categories: testing process, effectiveness, and tooling.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Without being able to measure the speed at which something is working, we can’t tell if the changes being made are improving the performance, having no effect, or even making things worse. Studying your network waterfall chart in developer tools will show this delay up under the category of “Waiting (TTFB)”.

Servers 87

Servers Performance Metrics Database 87

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A DNS lookup is the process of turning a human-friendly domain name like example.com into the machine-friendly IP address like 123.54.92.4 Speed Up Next-Page Navigations With Prefetching ,” Addy Osmani. (il). Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Drew McLellan.

Performance 106

Performance Games Servers Cache 106

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. Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 Image Compression Just how much of a website is made up of images?

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Drew McLellan.

Website 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

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 #.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Morning Paper

JULY 11, 2019

It has three main elements: an interface that visually highlights the data processing costs of each web page element in the rendered view and allows the developer to explore view-change refactorings; an estimator that provides the data feeding this view; and an optimiser that generates patches implementing view-change refactorings.

Database 47

Database Performance Speed Servers 47

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a small business or a startup, we often make decisions that can change the whole structure of our working processes. In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. Notice how March 2020 has shown an extremely positive change in website users with respect to March 2019.

Testing 52

Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

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. You can see timings like these for any asset in Chrome in Developer Tools via Network -> Click on your asset -> Timing tab. Handling Unused CSS In SASS To Improve Performance.

Performance 94

Performance C++ Media Website 94

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. They do not.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

2019-09-26T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-09-26T11:02:12+00:00. I believe you have to truly enjoy digging configurations and solving console errors to enjoy this process. Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 1).

Architecture 73

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 73

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process. The downside of using it is its speed. Denis Žoljom. Conclusion.

Cache 78

Cache Website Speed Database 78