Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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] What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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

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. This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company. Bookaway site search.

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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. 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.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. What Is Mobile Web Testing?

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Mobile Testing Website Speed 65

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one. Akshay Ranganath. 2021-03-25T13:00:00+00:00. 2021-03-25T18:06:03+00:00. billion in annual sales.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The CMG Impact conference (February 10-12, 2020 in Las Vegas) is coming. System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba. Solving the “Need for Speed” in the World of Continuous Integration by Vivek Koul, Mcgraw Hill. See you there!

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Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Scalability Performance 100

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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Design Development Programming Website 109

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. Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

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 127

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? Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

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. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. Another benefit of using a modern web framework is that a static/dynamic website can be packaged into a Portable Web Application (PWA). What front end frameworks are currently trending?

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

2020-03-09T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-03-09T13:41:45+00:00. As you can see, the impact is considerable — especially on lower-end devices and slow network speed, where images are coming in separately. Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. Barry Pollard.

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Website Code Mobile Availability 126

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. How much does all of this cost?

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

2020-04-01T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-04-01T14:46:06+00:00. The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. Blessing Krofegha. Traditional CMS e.g

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 104

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. For web apps, you can use cross-browser testing tools which can help you check the responsiveness of the website. Mobile Network Issues. In 2019, the worldwide sales of mobile devices were 1524 million units.

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Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

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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Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

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.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

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. Philip Kiely. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. So by late 2020, things got a bit out of control, with yellowish-red Lighthouse scores slowly showing up across the board. In early 2020, we’ve started with the big refactoring of the CSS layout components. The performance distribution for Largest Contentful Paint in 2020.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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. Why is that?

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

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. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. Because of this, network performance was not a factor in my measurements. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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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Website Energy Internet Internet 136

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Whatever the reason, in 2020, it isn't security. Deadweight Losses.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’re optimizing for the Web Vitals , you might be interested to hear that images account for ~ 42% of the Largest Contentful Paint element for websites. Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. This is why a lot of our guidance on performance talks about image optimization.

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Open Source Speed Website Google 145