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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

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. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. That might come a little bit unexpected.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Tracking critical content such as images and videos is a good place to start. > It's only tracked on certain elements, e.g., IMG and VIDEO (learn more here ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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

Smashing Magazine

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.