Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. Things have changed quite a bit over the last decade when we just started exploring what we could do on a tiny, shiny mobile screen. State Of Mobile 2021. Kelvin Omereshone.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. 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. 2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. save the user’s data!

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Rich Howard is the founder and CEO of Optimal , a company dedicated to improving the performance of websites and mobile apps. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. Introducing…Rich Howard.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ). Done with the analytical check, I moved on to user interviews.

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Education Website Google Design 84

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? Site performance reports on Etsy’s blog.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. ESLint ,” official website. TypeScript , official website. Jonne Kats.

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Website Code Servers Analytics 114

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?

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

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].

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. So you may well notice your field data on mobile is better than testing with this suggests (there are some discussions on changing the Lighthouse mobile settings ).

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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 74

Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

Developing a WordPress website is not enough, you should be able to reap all the benefits of having a powerful WordPress website. Most businesses fail to get such benefits as they are passive and don’t take additional steps to grow their businesses with WordPress websites. What is WordPress?

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Website Social Media Media Traffic 52

MachMetrics

APRIL 15, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. That’s only half of the story!

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Speed Testing Website Mobile 88

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Implementing load balancing has several benefits when it comes to managing workload on the cloud – incoming traffic is equitably spread across various servers or resources, which reduces strain on each resource and ultimately enhances overall system efficiency. What is meant by the workload in computers?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. Each action button in the SLO wizard selects one of these important templates.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 151

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

At first glance, the market for mobile browsers looks roughly functional. Tech pundits and policymakers form expectations of browsers on the desktop and think about mobile browser competition the same way. The mobile ecosystem appears to retain these properties, but the resemblance is only skin deep. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 21, 2020

In an era of cloud infrastructure, the goal is to integrate all your web services into one place: CDN, DNS, third-party API services, QA tools, analytics tools, and any other component you can think of, are working with each other to make your services function. Is my website speed good? Are my APIs in good health?

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Network 94

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is purpose built for providing near real-time visualizations and analytics of machine-generated data by indexing, aggregating, and searching semi structured logs and metrics.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. The Cost Of Mobile Data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

But with the changes in this mobile era, that’s no longer enough. 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. Mobile Apps (iOS, Android).

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. Updated Geekbench 4 single-core scores for each mobile price-point.">.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Collaboration and sharing of live analytics : Users often want to slice and dice their data and share it in various ways.

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Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. At the time of the workshop, our Lighthouse scores were 60–68 on the homepage , and around 40-60 on article pages — and obviously worse on mobile. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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

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.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 124

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

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? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

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