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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Performance Budgets. “A A performance budget is ‘. Business Performance.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Even Faster Websites.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. 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. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report. Large preview ).

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

When you decide to develop a business website, there are many things you need to consider to reap all the benefits it offers. For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. Not just that, you also need to ensure that the website has original content and loads quickly.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The CMG Impact conference (February 10-12, 2020 in Las Vegas) is coming. ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. . a Panel Discussion. Or can you?

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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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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. The conditions.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

2020-12-23T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-12-23T12:33:42+00:00. Progressive web applications (PWA) are still gathering popularity in 2020. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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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). 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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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. PBM is optimized to allow backups and has minimal impact on your production performance.

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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. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. 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.

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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. It’s worth digging through the archives (see e.g. 2020 ) — there’s a golden gem hidden in each one of them!

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. Mobile web testing is a form of test that’s performed to check if websites or web apps perform uniformly across various browsers and screen resolutions.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

2020-03-09T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-03-09T13:41:45+00:00. Web performance advocates have often advised to add dimensions to your images for best performance to allow the page to be laid out with the appropriate space for the image, before the image itself has been downloaded. Barry Pollard. Recommended Reading.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom.

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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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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. It also allows users to access a website for which native application is not available. There are so many different devices readily available in the market today to view a website. Testing Improves Website’s Look & Feel.

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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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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

In 2020, in the first nine months, we were already hitting 1590 million units and this trend has been growing every year. While performing the mobile app testing, we need to take care of specific challenges for each of them. You should also ensure that the code is responsive so that there is no problem in rendering the website.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

These front end frameworks provide various templates to interact with browser components and are compatible with various libraries which boost the performance while reducing the amount of code required. Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Easy Development : Make development easier by replacing navigational website elements.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Maybe it’s part of a performance review to identify critical CSS and reduce unused selectors. Generally, code auditing involves analyzing code to find bugs or other irregularities, like possible performance issues. To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. Performance Monitor.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the summer of 2019, British Airways faced a technical issue on its website. This is the impact of a small website issue on an enterprise and reminds us that even the slightest mistake is unaffordable. When the world was locked down inside their homes, the only thing that connected people with an enterprise is their website.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Performance And Availability.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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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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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. iOS gained browser support in late 2020 (a dozen years late) via an Entitlement. [4] More on that when we get to iOS.

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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% The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" In '07, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit on slow single-core devices with 128MiB of RAM. Whatever the reason, in 2020, it isn't security. Deadweight Losses. Could they?

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers. using “22” for the year 2022).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)).

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