Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 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.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. Negative experiences can swiftly spread through social media and other platforms, worsening the impact on the brand's image. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter.

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

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. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Rigor

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. It makes sense, because, as we’ve said in the past, good website performance has implications on user experience. Get Familiar with your Analytics. Are most of your users via desktop or mobile?

Speed 40

Speed Social Media Google Traffic 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. 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.

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

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We’re happy to announce that Dynatrace now provides guidance and templates for setting up Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) with the right metrics, gives you all the facts, and combines this with the powerful analytics of problem root-cause detection. While this is great, it might be overwhelming for many (“Which SLIs are right for me?”).

Metrics 150

Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 150

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance plateau is the point at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. If you work on a media site, then page views and bounce rate matter.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

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. I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. One challenge for fair inclusion is the tension between site-count-weighting and traffic-weighting.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? In most companies, that means looking into analytics and creating user profiles based on most common device types.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Large preview ).

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Image source ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) And finally, we have an Apache Iceberg layer which stores assets in a denormalized fashion to help answer heavy queries for analytics use cases. are stored in secure storage layers.

Strategy 258

Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham. We don’t have unlimited traffic or time, so sometimes we have to make hard choices.

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Innovation Metrics Engineering Testing 243