Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While we definitely get excited about emerging metrics, we also approach each new metric with an analytical eye. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. In North America, Safari users represent almost one-third of all traffic.) When it comes to new performance metrics, it's easy to jump on bandwagons.

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 109

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. In case one zone goes down, the traffic gets redirected to the remaining Cassandra nodes.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 179

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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. Dynatrace provides a centralized approach for establishing, instrumenting, and implementing SLOs that uses full-stack observability , topology mapping, and AI-driven analytics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To demonstrate how that can work, we’ve chosen a pristine web application without any observability and are going to make it observable step-by-step during the next few chapters of this article. Because OpenTelemetry is a set of protocols, definitions, and SDKs, it does not provide that ability, so it needs an analytics back end.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 171

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Full disclosure and reminder: LambdaTest is a friendly sponsor of this article. ). That might come a little bit unexpected.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

JULY 7, 2023

This article will examine how ecommerce software solutions can assist you in streamlining your enterprise, resulting in higher productivity, improved client experiences, and increased revenue. These systems produce in-depth analytics and reports on various topics, including website traffic, customer behavior, and sales performance.

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Ecommerce Software Software Analytics 52

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. This makes it ideal not only for regular scalability but also for advanced analytics with intricate workload management capabilities. What is meant by the workload in computers?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contrasting 5 Nines Availability Against Other Levels of AvailabilityAs discussed in this article, various levels of availability correspond to specific durations during which a service or system is expected to experience downtime. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Image credit: BBC.com ) ( Large preview ).

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Strategy Development Energy Website 126

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 105

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 99

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. There are countless articles on the topic, but here are a few things to be aiming for — clear, original, properly sourced, well written, accessible, and honest. There are numerous free tools available for tracking search analytics.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

Tech News Gather

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This article sheds light on the often-underestimated capabilities of phone call tracking apps and why they deserve your undivided attention. A call tracking app allows you to monitor traffic and identify peak call times. Implementing a phone call tracking software can give you a significant advantage.

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Strategy Big Data Scalability Games 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

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. If you’re unsure of where your traffic is coming from, use a tool like Google Analytics and track it for a while. That’s only half of the story! Don’t worry.

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Jake Archibald has written a great article on this.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

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. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. There’s a lot more to it than what can be covered in this article.

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Testing Network Website Google 102

CSS - Tricks

JULY 15, 2020

Let’s pretend we work with a marketing department and they want to start measuring traffic with Google Analytics. While we’re talking about performance, here are a few of my favorite performance articles on here at CSS-Tricks: The Complete Guide to Lazy Loading Images The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS Third-Party Scripts.

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Cache Google Analytics Servers 71

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While real user monitoring tools aren’t typically looked at as a replacement for marketing analytics tools, having session metrics available with your performance data is pretty great for anyone who cares about performance. How distributed is your traffic? Are you only interested in a specific type of traffic?

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Retail Traffic Media Metrics 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m sure we’ve all clicked on an article, started reading, and then had the text jump around as images, advertisements, and other content is loaded. This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. When sending // multiple values from the same page (e.g.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article. Why was the proposal valuable?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. The benefit?

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Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. In this article, however, we are going to focus on the third-party services that work their way into the design of your web pages.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

They can be more costly to implement — the cost involved in building a user-friendly platform with analytics is high when compared to using traditional CMS. Please note that this article is not written to promote any services or products. In this article, we’d be using GraphCMS because of its GraphQL API approach.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. It ticked all the 6 ideas that I have talked about in the article. Why was the proposal valuable?

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

CrUX data collection and first-party RUM analytics of these metrics require live traffic, meaning results can be predicted but only verified once deployed. In a world with better balance, most articles would be dedicated to announcements of mid-range devices from LG and Samsung.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2019

based sample service in a staging and production namespace, a Jenkins instance and execute some moderate load to “simulate constant production traffic”. Dynatrace log analytics gives us access to the logs in the context of the current problem. Alerting on high CPU is not special – but – I am really only running a small node.js

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Open Source Metrics Monitoring Cloud 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Google analytics has ‘low’ priority. KB for return-visits to articles that are renderable via the single page application.

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