Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. Alternatively, you can also check David Gossage’s article on How to review Core Web Vitals scores in bulk , in which he shares the scripts and how to get an API key to run the script manually without any external tools or services. PageSpeed Compare.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.). These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Not all pages are getting bigger.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We also added a "Performance 101" section that includes articles like: Synthetic vs. Real User Monitoring. If you have any suggestions for articles and guides you'd like to see, let me know! Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. Performance Budgets 101. Performance Culture Best Practices. Web Performance for Retailers.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. Why is WordPress slow?

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Microsoft's Mine Tokus has a good article where she ran a series of scaled down TPC-E benchmarks against an E64s_v3 VM that was using the older Broadwell processor. Most of the regular Esv3-series sizes are also available as constrained VMs, which gives you a lot of flexibility for sizing.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers!

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. When it comes to the impact of page speed on metrics like conversion rate and bounce rate, some pages are more critical than others.

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Performance Metrics Media Google 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

In this article we’re going to discuss various methods for improving eCommerce conversion rates. eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. Here are a couple of examples from Etsy’s website: Limited quantities available Product added to customer carts 3.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember reading articles about how 3G connectivity was going to transform performance and, more generally, the way we used the internet altogether. I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?”

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

For instance, typefaces used for a novel, an academic paper in a journal, or a lengthy online article like this one that uses the Elena typeface, that you are reading now on this webpage. Remember when I told you this article had some difficult and complex issues?) I would like to make things more complicated.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file. and Ruby are not yet available. Taking matters into my own hands.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage.

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs.

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Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. You may have heard of the Top500 list. Performance development.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Global Ground-Truth. 400Kbps transfer.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In this article, I will compare React.js Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. and Vue.js Performance.

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Important When planning, deploying, and maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server installation, ensure that the I/O system supports all the factors outlined in this article. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. Therefore, the database can have pages in any one of the three available verification states.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network.

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