The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2020, Netflix started streaming AV1 to the Android mobile app. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. This is what the INP metric assesses."

Mobile 82

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 82

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

Google 110

Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to Dynatrace research, 89% of CIOs said digital transformation accelerated over the course of 2020 , and 58% predicted it will continue to speed up. With logs, metrics, traces as well as user data and context, a modern observability platform can identify an issue or anomaly and, in some cases, automatically address the issue.

Software 201

Software Software Artificial Intelligence DevOps 201

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Looking at our overall data set, we saw a small increase in some key metrics and performance indicators, but this wasn’t substantial. . In the first two weeks in April , this state has had more web traffic than it had experience in 2020 to date. seconds to 2.78 seconds on average , before dropping back slightly to 2.74

Website 220

Website Monitoring Retail Media 220

Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. It's been three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. During this time, SpeedCurve has stayed objective when looking at the CWV metrics. How does INP compare to FID? have occurred.

Metrics 96

Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 96

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

According to the Dynatrace Autonomous Cloud survey , organizations are running into performance testing challenges in three areas: speed, quality, and scale. Challenges of scaling performance engineering affect speed, quality, and scale. They report a 9:1 ratio of script maintenance versus creation and about a 90% rate of test reruns.

Engineering 205

Engineering Testing Performance Performance Testing 205

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. The first metric that analyzed was First Contenful Paint (FCP). Time to first byte is a blocker for all other metrics that follow it. Page Weight.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The metrics that comprise Web Vitals are still evolving. These metrics will (I think) always be in a state of evolution. We need to do our best to stay up to date – not just with which metrics to track, but also with what they measure and why they're important. Which performance metrics should you focus on for SEO?

Performance 96

Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, IT analyst Gartner found that 30% of enterprises implementing distributed system architectures will have adopted observability techniques by 2024, up from less than 10% in 2020. Not just logs, metrics and traces. The need for speed has never been more urgent in today’s hyper-digital age. What is observability?

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 232

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF).

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Speed Curve

JUNE 30, 2020

Keep reading to find out what this means and how it may affect your performance metrics. Google has been on a roll in 2020 with the introduction of Core Web Vitals and this latest update , and we are thrilled to offer support for both. Visual metrics like Start Render and Hero Element Render might stay roughly the same.

Metrics 98

Metrics Mobile Google Network 98

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 7, 2023

This is an update to my 2020 article Site-Speed Topography. Around two and a half years ago, I debuted my Site-Speed Topography technique for getting broad view of an entire site’s performance from just a handful of key URLs and some readily available metrics. What Is Site-Speed Topography? By how much?

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Speed Metrics Website Database 131

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Metrics are a numeric representation of intervals over time.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

Tasktop

JULY 29, 2020

We emerged triumphant from that evaluation, with Tasktop named a Leader in the Forrester Wave : Value Stream Management Solutions, Q3 2020 report. In just a few clicks, you can set up Flow Metrics dashboards for any product value stream and configure desired integrations between your tools. Subscribe now.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare DevOps Innovation Metrics 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. I am available to help you find and fix your site-speed issues through performance audits , training and workshops , consultancy , and more.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Tasktop

MAY 13, 2020

And during the scramble to plug holes and fix what’s broken in their operations, they’re identifying areas that have been missing, including opportunities for real business transformation — both operationally and from a performance perspective, as well as keeping up to speed with today’s digital-first markets. Subscribe now.

Internet 86

Internet Internet Innovation DevOps 86

Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2020

In fact, you could store any numeric value you like as a user timing mark, which allows you to easily track any type of custom metric you like. You could use JavaScript to calculate an interesting metric and then pass it to a user timing mark. Note: As of early 2020, only Chrome supports User Timing Level 3. Give it crack!

Metrics 54

Metrics Storage Monitoring Performance 54

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace is the only solution that provides these user experience metrics consistently for real user monitoring as well as for synthetic monitors. More precisely, you can now: . What you can achieve.

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

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. I hope 2020 is the year that we meaningfully recognize that performance is about people, and adapt accordingly.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

We are on our planned course and speed: Fixing bugs is the purpose of this final year, and it’s why this schedule set the feature freeze deadline for C++“20” in early “19” (Kona), to leave a year to fix bugs including to get a round of international comments this summer. Of course, and no. So far, we’ve been right most of the time.

C++ 98

C++ Entertainment Education Azure 98

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Quantum computing is useful to speed up a relatively small number of very difficult computational problems that can’t be solved on classical computers. Architects, engineers, and developers are using new tools, metrics, and even new concepts, to observe, manage, and optimize performance. Certainly not now, and possibly never.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can, for example, drive ad hoc multidimensional analysis to analyze, chart, and report on microservice-based metrics without code changes. You can use powerful dashboard capabilities to visualize whatever metrics are most relevant to your teams and let the Davis AI causation engine automatically identify the root cause of problems.

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Speed Metrics Monitoring Availability 132

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% This primarily regards its UXUI and speed, so a progressive web app can be a solution to consider.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

Along with other general diagnostics and web performance metrics, a really useful feature of the report is that each of the key areas is aggregated into color-coded scores between 0-100. To mitigate this issue, we’ll replace any colons with underscores ( _ ), so a typical report filename will look like: 2020-01-31T18_18_12.648Z.json.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Dynatrace developed and released Keptn to open source in 2020. One particular use case for Austrian banking software developer Raiffeisen involves using Keptn to automate the production release and readiness validation of all its products using scoring metrics. Why is automated orchestration critical?

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Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics 192

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The scale and speed of the program triggered challenges for these banks that they had never before imagined. Speed up loan processing to deliver critically needed relief to small businesses? Full speed ahead. How can we… Scale to previously unheard-of loan volumes?

Small Business 264

Small Business Analytics Programming Speed 264

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Dan Shappir.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dynatrace has recently enhanced its Metrics APIs, allowing everyone to send any type of metric with any set of data dimension to Davis, Dynatrace’s AI engine. In our conversation, I mentioned the new Dynatrace Metrics ingestion and off we went. ?? There are many use cases for using this API.

Innovation 156

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 156

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2021

We've gotten a lot of questions about what has changed and the impact on your performance metrics, so here's a summary. In case you missed it, Lighthouse is a speed tool created by the Chrome Developer team at Google. No metrics were added or removed from the Lighthouse scoring in version 8. Speed Index: 15 -> 10.

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Google Metrics Best Practices Speed 107

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In the US and the UK, Comscore’s Global State of Mobile 2020 report discovered in August 2020, that mobile usage accounted to 79% and 81% of total digital minutes respectively. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Easier to measure the impact of Core Web Vitals on actual user experience It's been almost four years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. And we've discovered that INP for mobile has an even stronger correlation with user engagement metrics than INP for desktop. This is where Element Timing comes in.

Performance 57

Performance Metrics Speed Google 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Google’s Core Web Vitals is a set of performance metrics that site owners can use to evaluate performance and diagnose performance issues. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Bookaway site search. One of the key Next.js

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion in 2020 to $4.1 With clear insight into crucial system metrics, teams can automate more processes and responses with greater precision. Logs are an essential part of the three fundamental pillars of observability : metrics, logs, and traces. In fact, the global log management market is expected to grow from 1.9

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214