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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

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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. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Well, not so fast.

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Three Other Models of Computer System Performance: Part 1

ACM Sigarch

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Analytic models—including simple ones like Amdahl’s Law —represent a third, often underused, evaluation method that can provide insight for both practice and research, albeit with less accuracy.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

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. One could argue this is a metric-driven decision. Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

But do you know how Lighthouse calculates performance metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Total Blocking Time (TBT), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics. But it comes with caveats.

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