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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) 2023, 2024: Frame Pointers in Fedora and Ubuntu! Back-end servers.

Java 145
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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

The multi-core performance gap between i-devices and budget Androids grew considerably, with the score delta rising from 4,318 points last year to 4,936 points in 2023. Networks # As ever, 2023 re-confirmed an essential truth when it comes to user experience: when things are slow, users engage less often.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

Here’s how I worked on it: I subscribed to ChatGPT Plus and used the GPT-4 model in ChatGPT (first the May 12, 2023 version, then the May 24 version) to help me with design and implementation. Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming.