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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

in 2020, ecommerce grew 14.2% in 2021. As Alois Reitbauer, chief technology strategist at Dynatrace, noted in 2020, organizations shouldn’t be caught off guard during Black Friday and other high-volume times. Moreover, website performance problems during peak times have a clear economic impact. In the U.S.,

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Large view.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Mobile First.

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How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget

Smashing Magazine

The same sentiment was conveyed by Conviva’s Q4 2020 State of Streaming (registration required), which noted that mobile phones saw 20% more buffering issues , a 19% higher video-start failure and 5% longer start-time than other devices. The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content. Deliver through multiple CDNs.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). 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%.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

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. You must have been suggested to choose a fast web server for better performance and reliable uptime.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Establish a performance culture. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. In many companies, performance budgets shouldn’t be aspirational, but rather pragmatic, serving as a holding sign to avoid slipping past a certain point.