Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

This article was inspired by an email I received from Thomas Reisenbichler , Director of Autonomous Cloud Enablement on Friday, June 11 th. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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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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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Monitoring. Monitoring can provide a way to differentiate between.

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Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. But does it need to be available immediately ? What’s so important about that?

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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. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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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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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

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.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 132

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This article will help you with exactly that. The metrics selection is outside of the scope of this article and depends highly on the project context, but I recommend that you start by reading User-centric Performance Metrics by Philip Walton. This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 100

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2021

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. Availability, with no doubt, is the basic requirement. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. Best Practices.

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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 can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 30, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. Availability, with no doubt, is the basic requirement. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. Best Practices.

Website 52

Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JULY 7, 2020

As we’ve noticed, website performance, especially its speed and availability, are essential to the success of your business. Availability, with no doubt, is the basic requirement. The entry/exit communication traffic can be overwhelmed by limited international bandwidth and huge user number. Best Practices.

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Website Monitoring Website Performance Performance 52

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. Image credit: Addy Osmani. Conclusion.

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Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Note : At the moment of writing of this article, the fetchpriority attribute is currently supported in Chrome Canary with full release set for Chrome version 101, with other browsers to follow suit.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 71

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Information on the how of performance has been available for awhile, but not until the last couple years have we really seen answers to the question of why. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 Performance matters. seconds off their average page load time.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). HTTP/3 performance features. This is more in-depth and technical.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 107

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. More in-depth information is available. This is more in depth and technical. What Does It All Mean?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 107