Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Predictive analytics, powered by AI, enhance business processes and optimize resource allocation according to workload demands.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve written a few articles here before on Core Web Vitals, and am always interested to see what’s in their annual Web Performance Checklist. LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. INP is a relatively new metric, so the suggested thresholds from Google are subject to change.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 109

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. See entry 6. Identify Page Types. For example, my site has a homepage, content pages (e.g.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. Analytics is a good example. Analytics is another difficult choice.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 131

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This article will explore hybrid cloud benefits and steps to craft a plan that aligns with your unique business challenges. Workloads from web content, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence stand out as particularly well-suited for hybrid cloud infrastructure owing to their fluctuating computational needs and scalability demands.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Dynatrace provides a centralized approach for establishing, instrumenting, and implementing SLOs that uses full-stack observability , topology mapping, and AI-driven analytics. For more information about defining critical paths, see the article Understanding your application’s critical path. Define SLOs for each service.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 272

Website Optimization

APRIL 26, 2020

In a previous article, we wrote about early warning signals that can help you optimize PPC ads faster using Phone Calls and PTR (phone through rate) data. In this follow-up article we explore additional metrics to help optimize PPC ads faster, including Impressions Top & Absolute Top, and Average Session Duration.

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For this article, we’ll use the term ETL synonymously. Even with Google offering a lot of features through its BigQuery , some degree of optimization is still required. An important step in that chain of the process is data modeling and transformation. ETL as a process is not always as straightforward as it seems.

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Big Data Google Scalability Processing 189

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. How To Track Suspicious Activity.

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Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Speed Curve

MAY 9, 2023

Today at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. INP is a new metric, so the suggested thresholds from Google are subject to change.

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Metrics Google Mobile Analytics 95

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

This article is sponsored by imgix. Last but not least, analytics. You also want to see processing analytics on how many videos have been fully encoded. You can see all your videos in their Asset Manager , as well as detailed playback analytics. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Better Video Streaming With imgix.

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Media Speed Network Analytics 107

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The one for the menu was the longest and had INP time of 350ms – in other words, 150ms longer than Google's 200ms threshold for 'Good'. Within the longest event handler, the first group of processing creates an analytics event to record the visitor opening the menu. While that is one place to start, it's not the only approach.

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Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 15, 2022

It also allows you to view your followers’ analytics. You can easily download the app from the Google Play Store or the official website. . You can download Technomantu by visiting the official website or searching for “Free Instagram Follower” on Google Play. Technomantu is a free Instagram follower app.

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Social Media Media Google Website 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways that we as individuals can use our skills to have a positive environmental impact within a digital organization. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Read more about climate justice in this article from Carbon Brief. (vf,

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Strategy Development Energy Website 124

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

While Google’s PageSpeed Insights give you both a score for how your website performs on both desktop and mobile, most of the other audit services default to testing your site on a desktop. As we covered in our Average Page Load Times for 2020 article, mobile web usage has surpassed desktop usage, and this will only get wider.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

We will use continuous performance testing and Google Lighthouse to audit every change. Let’s pretend we work with a marketing department and they want to start measuring traffic with Google Analytics. This will highlight the importance of testing every code change. From there, we will make changes until it scores a mere 17.

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Cache Google Analytics Servers 71

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. This article focuses on various approaches to modify headers in a Selenium automation setup. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article. Conclusion.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. Personalized articles in Netflix Help Center powered by Bulldozer.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

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Cache Games Performance Website 91

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

After all, when we look at our analytics, we will hardly find any customers browsing our sites or apps with a mid-range device on a flaky 3G connection. With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. In this article, we have looked into the state of mobile in 2021.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. We can then forward this data to a custom analytics service.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. When the consent banner is not shown, an article title becomes the LCP element. Core Web Vitals can answer questions like: When was the largest element displayed?

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Metrics Retail Mobile Analytics 141

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. Now that you are collecting the Speed Index for your web page, you could push the data to your web analytics tools or even test for this in a performance budget.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. Now that you are collecting the Speed Index for your web page, you could push the data to your web analytics tools or even test for this in a performance budget.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40

Dean Hume

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In this article, I am going to show you how to get started using the Speed Index library and how you can start collecting this data using Google Analytics. Now that you are collecting the Speed Index for your web page, you could push the data to your web analytics tools or even test for this in a performance budget.

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Speed Analytics Google Retail 40