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

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. I already had Google Analytics installed, so I added the following code to each page.

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Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

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

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). In other words, website owners need to make an extra effort to get their scripts to load asynchronously. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.)

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Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

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

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Government and Big Data. Contact Info.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

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

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

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. This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Analytics is a good example. Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread.

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Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 91

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. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic? What is “Origin”?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Network or connection error. Network latency. Network Latency. DNS resolving error.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. But how does it decide where to send this traffic? What is “Origin”?An

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The OSI Model is like a layer cake of how data moves through networks. This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

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? Synthetic Monitoring Tools.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Network 94

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

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?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. 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.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

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. Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Typical use cases for a graph database include social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs. 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

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. Vitaly Friedman.

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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. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145