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. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. 2021-01-11T15:30:13+00:00. 2021-01-11T16:06:07+00:00. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Vitaly Friedman.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

half of all corporate networks. Log4Shell is a widespread software vulnerability that occurred in December of 2021 in Apache Log4j 2, a popular Java library for logging error messages in applications. For example, within a week of the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, Microsoft reported more than 1.8

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

2021-03-02T16:30:00+00:00. 2021-04-14T15:55:39+00:00. State Of Mobile 2021. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. Kelvin Omereshone.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Higher is better.

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